> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:19:39PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: >> Stable --> CURRENT_STABLE >> Testing --> ALMOST_STABLE >> Unstable --> NEW_NOT_PROVEN > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=unstable > > 1. a) Tending strongly to change: unstable weather. > b) Not constant; fluctuating: unstable vital signs. > 2. a) Fickle. > b) Lacking control of one's emotions; marked by unpredictable > behavior. > 3. Not firmly placed; unsteady: an unstable ladder. > > Unstable seems like an accurate name to me.
Since your dictonairy is not aware of the term "unstable" in the computer-world, it is not of much use in my humble opinion. Every profession has his own jargon or language, and gives common words a slightly different meaning sometimes. In computer-world unstable means: is known to crash too often, or something similar. It sounds like it is flaky, buggy crap :). LOL, this reminds of the this UserFriendly strip some years ago with Greg on top of a NT server, to reach some upper shelf in a cupboard, saying: hmm, this server is actually pretty stable! I am running a production server on unstable for over a year now with only some really minor issues (4 or 5 things took me more than 10 minutes to fix but were no major showstoppers). This machine needs hardly any attention at all, and is running a postfix mailserver, courier-imap, apache, subversion, squirrelmail, phpcollab, several zope/plone websites, phpgroupware, mailman mailinglists, squid proxy server for my LAN, Samba for fileserving and PDC for my LAN etcetera. For me and my users it has proven more than stable. However, I am going to move some of the above services to a rack-mounted machine at an ISP soon. I *will* run stable there (with some backports) because this machines needs to *absolutely* as stable as possible. (The reason I am moving is of bandwith concerns and has nothing to do with Debian). Pim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
