Re: RH questions

[Gary <gary-list-silug@mygirlfriday.info>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:17:57PM -0500 or thereabouts, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:05:16 -0500, Gary
> <gary-list-silug@mygirlfriday.info> wrote: 
 
> > Yes, but Debian has a history of not being current with the kernel,
> > products, etc...
> 
> False, also a half-truth. ;)
 
> The stable Debian distribution contains software that has been tested to
> the highest degree. It has very few bugs and is very mature software,
> albeit older. Any newer software that you might wish to try is
> always available from Debian developers in the form of backports.

True, I had forgotten about that in all honesty. 
 
> The unstable branch has all the latest software for the most
> part. While it has a few more bugs, namely because the software and
> packages are newer and not guaranteed to always work
> (very rarely do I run into any problems, and never had I had a problem
> that wasn't already documented in bugs.debian.org.) In fact, the

Now that is interesting. 

> unstable distribution is often updated with the latest stuff before
> other distributions. And if it's too new or unstable for inclusion, then
> you can typically always find it in experimental or an unofficial
> developer's repository (on either people.debian.org or whatever.)

Interesting.. 

> Contrary to popular belief, Debian does not at all NOT have a history of
> being current. You can either be current, or you can be stable. Debian
> gives you a choice.

Same as BSD.. good points.. I will D/L the ISOs and check it out.


-- 
Gary
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