Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable
rhkramer@gmail.com writes:
> Aside: for my own self respect, I want to make some sort of disclaimer here
> (with maybe several points): I'm sure that sometimes I post things that do
> any of (1) make other people cringe (for one reason or another), (2) make me
> look uninformed (or worse), and (3) other causes for embarrassment (to myself
> of others).
>
> I finally realized that the "normal" progression / hierarchy of the Debian
> releases is from Unstable to Testing to Stable.
>
> I never looked it up -- I assume that, like most people, we don't look up
> everything but make assumptions based on past experience. I expected that the
> normal progression for Debian releases would be from Testing (trying all / any
> kind of new, possibly weird things), to Unstable (concentrating on things that
> survived some initial testing and now maybe being released to a select group
> for some real pounding en route to Stable.
>
There is an experimental "distribution" that is for trying all kinds of
new and weird things.
> (I've never used anything other than stable releases, so my misunderstanding
> hasn't had any real world effect on my systems, but I have been confused at
> times, and suspect that maybe one other person out there may have similarly
> been confused.)
You might find
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.release-lifecycle.html
informative.
--
regards,
kushal
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