Scott wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >>Scott wrote:
>>>And then OpenOffice.0rg 3, Firefox 2.0, GIMP 3.0, GNOME 2.16, and KDE
>>>4.0 will be released within the following month discouraging many from
>>>sticking with Debian stable....
>> You still misunderstand. The point is there is no one standing there with
>>a gun to their head forcing said people to stick to stable. *NO ONE*.
> Considering I'm *not* running stable, I understand perfectly. Where
> have I implied I was?
Where did I imply you had said you were? My response was to your general
statement that "people" would shy away from Debian stable. I responded that
"people" don't have a gun to their head forcing them to remain on stable.
Never once were you mentioned.
> What Debian (or SOMEBODY please) needs is a new "stable" release at
> least once a year with security updates, bugfixes AND *major* software
> package (i.e 1.5 to 2.0, 3.6-4.0) updates to that release as the next
> release is being simultaneously developed.
Nope, stable is stable. Stable let's you know there's a very solid base.
It is up to the users to then upgrade packages as they so desire. It's isn't
like there aren't 4 repositories that I can think of off the top of my head to
achieve just this.
> Wait, there is one I can think of, but unfortunately they utilize this
> software called YUM and hand have a gazillion packages but Debian has a
> gazillion and a half.
Funny, mine don't.
testing
unstable
apt-get.org (for backports)
volitile
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