On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 07:33:43PM -0500, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: > On 01/25/2014 11:46 AM, Dicebot wrote: > >On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 15:52:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >>OK, but what I was getting at was that Debian 'unstable' is actually > >>usable for daily desktop needs in spite of the name. > > > >And original rant was that Debian unstable is too _stable_ for desktop > >use, not the other way around :) > > If you're talking about Nick's rant, he didn't specifically say what > Debian release he was using, but it was clearly stable, especially > when he mentions backports. Over the years I've switched from Debian > stable, to testing, and finally to unstable and haven't looked back.
Makes me wonder if Debian should just rename unstable -> stable, testing -> very stable, and stable -> very old. :-P T -- This is a tpyo.
