Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote:
>> Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is
>> "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its
>> packages, ceases, and it goes into maintenance mode, so that only
>> bugfixes and security vulnerabilities, are performed, if they are
>> deemed serious enough, and, for the packages that are not abandoned,
>> and, development of the version and its packages, is abandoned, like
>> when I once worked at a pulp and paper mill, which used to close down
>> production for three days every christmas, with only repairs and
>> maintenance and cleaning being done, except here, the shutdown of
>> production, becomes permanent, and maintenance mode takes over (for as
>> long as the maintenance is performed), once a version is decreed
>> stable, and "released".
>
> If you don't like it, don't use it. No-one is making you.
>
And that is the attitude of software developers, that some software
engineering lecturers who are worth their salt, warn against, as it
leads to the disrepute of the IT industry.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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