Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
Steve Lamb wrote:
> Scott wrote:
>
>>And then OpenOffice.0rg 3, Firefox 2.0, GIMP 3.0, GNOME 2.16, and KDE
>>4.0 will be released within the following month discouraging many from
>>sticking with Debian stable....
>
>
> You still misunderstand. The point is there is no one standing there with
> a gun to their head forcing said people to stick to stable. *NO ONE*.
Considering I'm *not* running stable, I understand perfectly. Where
have I implied I was?
> The point of stable is that the *version numbers are..... STABLE!* If they want
> all the goodies they are perfectly capable of moving up the tree to testing or
> unstable.
What Debian (or SOMEBODY please) needs is a new "stable" release at
least once a year with security updates, bugfixes AND *major* software
package (i.e 1.5 to 2.0, 3.6-4.0) updates to that release as the next
release is being simultaneously developed.
Wait, there is one I can think of, but unfortunately they utilize this
software called YUM and hand have a gazillion packages but Debian has a
gazillion and a half.
Don't get me wrong, I'm here because I felt etch/sid would be what I
wanted. They are, except unlike the previously mentioned distro, I'm
much more "on my own" when it comes to security updates. On the other
hand, I've yet to be affected by "Joe Blow, Hobart, Tasmania,
discovered a buffer overrun if you disable the flex capacitor in <insert
name of program I never use, rarely use or never heard of> on rainy
Thursdays" :-)
So I get my latest and greatest and takes my chances. I'm just saying
it doesn't have to be that way.
And that's pretty much all I have to say on the subject. I'm sorry I
brought it up.
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Scott
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