On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:03:29PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
My best guess is that things are fine until Debian is the last guy left in town, and no one else (upstream, other vendors) support the version in stable. Is this correct?
Mostly. Unfortunately, that is increasingly the case as debian's release cycles stay long and those of other desktop-oriented distributions grow shorter. (Server-oriented stuff like RH's enterprise edition has a long release cycle but *much* less software.) Mike Stone