Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?
On 07/04/12 19:44, Lisi wrote:
> 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.
It might still be stable in the "not changing" sense, just not in the
"only build from the Stable branch sense.
> But what name would you give
> to a Stable installation, which has had a very small number of changes
> installed?
A description I like is Stable with some $whatever. eg.
Stable with some Backports, Stable with some Multimedia and Backports etc.
> 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.
No need if you change the angle of approach to allow for the possibility
that not everyone is going to agree upon what constitutes "basically"
(fundamentally?), "usable", and "real world".
Of course where all in agreement as to what "desktop" is. (though why
people call KDE "GNOME" always confuses me) ;-p
>
> Lisi
>
>
Kind regards
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