Re: [SLUG] To Debian or not to Debian, that is the ......

[Andre Pang]

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 06:33  PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

On 21 Feb 2003 11:47:52 +1100
Jean-Francois Dive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I think this is always the same story... Debian moves slower than any
other distribution in most of the packages it offers.

Debian testing does not move slower than other distros, it moves significantly
faster.

While this is true (arguably so for unstable, possibly so for testing), I find it bad that this isn't the general perception of Debian. Almost all the Debian users I know track the packages in testing rather than stable, and one of the great advantages of Debian is that it is actually possible to track testing and pretty much guarantee a stable system.

Maybe the Debian usability project will decide to rename the three branches of Debian sometime in the future; e.g. "mission-critical", "desktop" and "beta" instead of "stable", "testing" and "unstable". Just using the name "stable" for one of the distributions implies that the other distributions _aren't_ stable, which is quite far from the truth.


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