Debian sarge release update

Debian sarge release update

Posted Jun 2, 2005 8:21 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: Debian sarge release update by hensema
Parent article: Debian sarge release update

On the other hand, you seem to be assuming that since it's only a small version number change that only small changes have been made. That's wrong, nearly everything has changed.

For me, I glad Debian has long release cycles, it means that I don't have to upgrade my system continuously just to get something stable. For work it's important to have something that never ever crashes.

As you say, there are a handful of programs like spamassassain which could see more frequent updates compared to the normal, and that is being addressed. But 99% of programs don't obsolete that fast. Many of the GNU tools are 20 years old yet they're used by everyone all the time. Apache 1 is old but the standards havn't changed and it works just as well now as it did three years ago.

Finally, the task of a distribution (in my eyes) is to provide a network of packages from which I can install and maintain a system with complete confidence. For servers, three year old webservers are not "obsolete". Even on Windows many people are sticking with older versions.

If you want a desktop you don't run stable anyway, you use testing or unstable since you'll actually be in front of the machine when it crashes.

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