On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:53:01AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 14:45 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > However, the predictability that it appears you want, timely releases at > > predefined intervals, is not very likely to be realistic with Debian. > > That's exactly right, at least based on the history of the project and > its release cycles, such as they are. That's the rub. I'm not > expecting or even asking that Debian change its character or modus > operandi just for me (or for users like me, who would appreciate a > greater emphasis on timeliness than currently exists). I'm just saying > it is what bugs me about how Debian works, and in the end, if anything > finally causes me to move on to a different distro once and for all, > it's that -- the lack of predictability; the long release cycles that > result in the long feature freezes; that whatever "stable" happens to be > at the time of release, it is inevitably behind the curve (compared to > many other distros) in terms of freshness. At the same time, it's also > ahead of almost everybody else in terms of stablity and reliability. > > As always, each user has to decide for himself whether any given OS's > priorities are the best fit with his own priorities. There's no "right > answer" for everybody, or we'd all be using the same distro, a BSD, > Windows, OS X. > As was already pointed out, if you want the latest and greatest, then run with testing or unstable. I wager that they are easily as stable (if not more so) than other popular distros (like FC, for example). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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