Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?
On Sat 07 Apr 2012 at 10:44:59 +0100, 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.
Excuses, excuses. :)
> 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.
Stablish. (But it won't catch on.)
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