On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:18 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > sujit sugathan wrote: > > Can someone explain the difference between Debian Linux and other > > flavours of Linux.Why is Debian considered to be more stable. > > Debian's release cycle has been extremely long. As a result, their > packages are well tested. They also backport security fixes, so as a > whole, the Debian platform changes infrequently. It's a trade-off, > forsaking the latest tech for older stuff that's known to be reliable. Standing joke is that Debian will never cut a release until a sufficient number of packages in the release are sufficiently out of date. -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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