Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have both {Fedora Core 6 + latest updates}, and
> {Debian ETCH + latest SID updates}, on my desktop PC
> at home. I believe that these two distributions are at
> the bleeding edge: the latest and the best. I have
> Fedora because I have to teach courses based on
> Fedora. I have Debian because many of my colleagues
> use it, and so we have a common talking point. I did
> a comparison of the packages in both, and found the
> following:
[elided comparison]
> So FC6 has a later kernel and C library, but Debian
> has a later iceweasel (firefox). Almost everything
> else is the same. The only difference is that Debian
> SID is supposed to be unstable (but many people find
> it stable enough to be usable), but FC6 is a stable
> release.
Sid is indeed unstable, but there is actually a more "unstable" branch,
more bleeding edge than unstable -- experimental. All totally
bleeding-edge packages (e.g. completely new upstream versions, new
software packages) are introduced in experimental before actually
hitting unstable. Unstable is for packages that have been shown to run,
although have not been vetted for stability.
--
JM Ibanez
Senior Software Engineer
Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://software.orangeandbronze.com/
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