On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:19:39 +0300 Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote: >> >> sarge -- alternatives to "TESTING": > > - desktop > - user > - mostly stable > - freezing Some of these would actually be dangerous, as they communicate something about testing which is *not true*. The descriptors you chose for each of the three distributions give the impression that the stability (in the bugginess sense, not in the "unchanging-with-time" sense) and usability of the three form a spectrum with sid the worst, stable the best, and testing in-between. That's wrong. It may be correct, or close to correct, right now, when the main thing holding up the release is the installer. But it's not the general case -- sometimes, testing can be more broken than sid (because of packages missing from testing that are present in sid, security updates that haven't made it to testing that are present in sid, etc.). Running testing takes work; and if you don't have to deal with things like a broken glibc or something like that, you *do* have to deal with things like a nonfunctioning GNOME or KDE, or a security update to perl that's four weeks behind sid, etc. -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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