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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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