rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > Aside: for my own self respect, I want to make some sort of disclaimer here > (with maybe several points): I'm sure that sometimes I post things that do > any of (1) make other people cringe (for one reason or another), (2) make me > look uninformed (or worse), and (3) other causes for embarrassment (to myself > of others). > > I finally realized that the "normal" progression / hierarchy of the Debian > releases is from Unstable to Testing to Stable. > > I never looked it up -- I assume that, like most people, we don't look up > everything but make assumptions based on past experience. I expected that > the > normal progression for Debian releases would be from Testing (trying all / > any > kind of new, possibly weird things), to Unstable (concentrating on things > that > survived some initial testing and now maybe being released to a select group > for some real pounding en route to Stable. >
There is an experimental "distribution" that is for trying all kinds of new and weird things. > (I've never used anything other than stable releases, so my misunderstanding > hasn't had any real world effect on my systems, but I have been confused at > times, and suspect that maybe one other person out there may have similarly > been confused.) You might find https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.release-lifecycle.html informative. -- regards, kushal