On Mon 09 Jan 2017 at 01:05:35 (+0000), Mike wrote: > Hi, > > Firstly thanks to everyone for their time and effort in coming up > with and maintaining these fantastic alternatives to Windows, its > very much appreciated. I have been using Ubuntu and other Linux > based operating systems for number of years now, and will never > return to Windows....no way ! > My knowledge of Linux is quite limited, I am more of a open the box > and plug and play type user ( maybe I should learn more ) ! > I write to you in the hope that you can explain to me ( in plain > English please ) the unstable issue in the enclosed attachment C > Library GNU C Library version ( Ubuntu GLIBC 2.24-3 Ubuntu 2 ) 2.24 > ( unstable ) I suppose my question is ..if this is unstable why > is it been released as part of the download for the current version > of Ubuntu ?
The fact that you write "if this is unstable" rather than "if this is in 'unstable' " might suggest a misunderstanding of "unstable" in Debian parlance. Take a look at https://www.debian.org/releases/ where you'll see that "unstable" is a label, not a state of instability. 2.19 is the version in stable=jessie because that was the version around when jessie went through the testing→frozen→stable release process. > Sincere thanks for your time. No problem. Note that some people might not like answering ubuntu questions here. Come back if I've misunderstood your question. Cheers, David.
