On Fri 11 Jan 2002, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > If you like frequent updates, you can stay with the "unstable"
I recommend "testing" over "unstable" for people who don't read debian-devel before breakfast :-) Unstable is basically the incoming distribution; new packages that are uploaded are put into unstable, and after a period of time (basically 10 days) if there aren't any serious bugs open on the package, the package migrates to testing. The thinking is that testing should be in a state ready to be released at any moment, as the unstable distribution should catch any bad errors in packages (e.g. a libc screwup that would render your whole system unusable, to name one example from the past :-) Paul Slootman
