Is there any way to objectively measure stability among debian
flavours? I mean, does anybody know of a webpage or project or something
to build statistics on bug reports? I'm asking this because every now
and then we have threads asking how much unstable unstable is, and the
replies are always like 'depends', or 'your mileage may vary' and such.
If a there's a good soul somewhere keeping statistics of broken
stuff and bugs grouped by packages and flavours, I'd REALLY like to see
it.
The answer is always: Stable is more stable than testing Testing is more stable than sid Sid is not stable. Sid is _arguably_ sometimes as stable as other "bleeding edge" distros, but sid will (and has) break from time to time. Any such statistics on Sid will always be out of date, but there is always the excellent bts: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ Personally, I always recommend Sarge, though I currently use Ubuntu.