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ExaggerationExaggerationPosted Sep 22, 2010 22:09 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Exaggeration by dbruce Parent article: A constantly usable testing distribution for Debian
"No, it has never been more than 3 years old."
You're forgetting the time spent in pre-release freeze. For example, Lenny has Linux 2.6.26 which was released on 13 Jul 2008. So it's already 2 years old and is going to be about 3 years when Squeeze is going to be released.
Python 2.5.2 (in Lenny) was released on Feb 18 2008 - already more than 2.5 year old.
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Exaggeration Posted Sep 23, 2010 12:42 UTC (Thu) by dbruce (subscriber, #57948) [Link]
Good points - the stabilization process seems to add an awful lot of time.
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Exaggeration Posted Oct 5, 2010 13:19 UTC (Tue) by dererk (subscriber, #67491) [Link]
You are mixing a lot of real facts, but using them as your own purpose.
That is, following your understanding, Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers a 4 years old distribution (because they distribute 2.6.18 kernel which was realized 14th Oct 2006), or, in the same way, it's 6 years old, because it includes python 2.4 released on 2004...
It's a stable software, in software engineer that would basically mean it has been proven to work in most testing scenarios, unfortunately for some cases, *that time* is too much.
I really think CUT would be a solution for them. Once again, thanks JoeyHess the great tools you invent and code (altogether with etckeeper, debconf itself, and so on!)!
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