Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 06 April 2012 23:16:46 Chris Bannister wrote:
> You seem to be confusing the meaning of stable in the distribution
> sense.  It doesn't mean "free of bugs" or "unlikely to crash", it means
> unchanging/not moving. So by having backports you are changing that.

Yes, I expressed that badly.  Blame the fact that I was more than half asleep.

And of course, if I change it, it is not stable.  But what name would you give 
to a Stable installation, which has had a very small number of changes 
installed?  It seems to me that it is legitimate to say:  I want my desktop 
to be basically Stable, but usable in the real world.  And there is no 
shorthand name for that. 

Lisi