'sid' is debian unstable. debian is three distributions in one:
stable, testing and unstable. packages are first introduced into unstable and if they survive a certain amount of time in 'unstable' without any serious bugs against them, they become eligible to enter the 'testing' repository. 'sid' is the nickname given to the (permanently) unstable repository. every once in a while 'testing' is frozen and much work devoted to stabilising and bugfixing it until it is considered rock-solid, at which point it becomes a 'stable' release. 'stable' is a more thoroughly tested and stabilised static set of packages released periodically from the primordial soup described earlier. as soon as a new stable is released, software bubbles up from unstable into testing again, and the cycle continues. -AA. On 01/10/2007, Zachary Zelinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is sid? People keep referencing it, but I have no idea where this is. > Is this where i might find debian packages for ekiga? -- Ambrose Andrews LPO box 8274 ANU Canberra ACT 2601 Australia http://www.vrvl.net/~ambrose/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] home:+61_262305976 work:+61_261256749 mobile:+61_415544621 irc:{undernet|freenode|oftc}:znalo xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CE38 8B79 C0A7 DF4A 4F54 E352 2647 19A1 DB3B F823 556A 6D19 0904 827C 9DB8 3697 32D0 1E11 403F 2BE1 _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
