On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:53:12PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > Many people are probably only aware of Debian's stable releases, which > haven't been as regular as those of other distributions (although we all > know they're rock solid, so "stable" they really are). Debian also has > three other official trees: testing, unstable, and experimental. > Debian's testing tree is meant to be a staging area for the next stable > release. The unstable tree contains most new software versions uploaded, > and although the name may scare a lot of people off, it's often more > usable than it sounds.
Debian's unstable tree contains the software that you'd expect to get with a recent RedHat or Suse. They're just very conservative with their stable tree. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
