> Which is it? Do your friends want the newest bleeding edge stuff, or > do they want stability? They can't have both at the same time! Oh, I > see, the want the newest, but they want us to call it "stable". > > Sigh. > > Why is is this basic distinction so hard to explain to people? Testing > and reliability take time. During that time, new features are going to > show up in various parts of the system. Along with those new features > come compatibility and reliability problems. You can either have the new > features, or you can have a tested, stable, reliable *system*. *YOU* > *CAN'T* *HAVE* *BOTH*.
I wholy agree with you. But I think that, in this context, you are wrong. Your arguments would have meaning if a stable Debian is being released each 5 or 6 months, and that's not the case. Debian slink is completely obsolete, we are shipping a glibc 2.0 distribution, with an ancient kernel, no support for current video cards. We are all using potato, but we are shipping slink, keep that in mind.
