Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

Bruce Hohl wrote:
> I have been running Debian Stable on a PC and Debian
> Testing on a PC for a few months.  All is well.  I
> have a few questions:
> 
> 1- Compared to Debian Stable, Debian Testing has many
> more programs on the Gnome menu (many without icons). 
> Will the next Stable release retain all these menu
> items?  Or, will the next stable release retain a
> smaller list of menu selections like the current
> stable release?

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http://www.debian.doc/releases might help you understand how releases
work in Debian.