On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 20:33 +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > Not too impressed there. Stuff that bleeding edge shouldn't even get out > > into any kind of public domain. > > I think that you will find that that is how Open Source works. > Development versions of software is put out into use by developers to > work on it and perfect it (in fact it is never really *not* out in public). > The terms "Open Source" or "Free Software" by definition mean that > *anybody* can work on it. > > If you are downloading a beta or dev version of any Open Source project > then you have to be prepared for almost anything. > > If you want reliable Open Source software only get the "released" or > "stable" versions.
Although it is worth saying I have been runing unstable debian for a while and I could count the number of things that haven't worked off the bat using one hand, in unary. --Slosh
