Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?
Posted Nov 7, 2003 16:56 UTC (Fri) by
amacater (subscriber, #790)
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Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?
Just for the record.
Stable is unconditionally stable. It may take 18 months to release new
major versions - but it will have been tested for longer. Security fixes
are backported and point releases made - 2.2 had 7 point releases, the last being a matter of days before 3.0. Mission absolutely critical -
at least as up to date as RH 7.3
Testing is "testing for a release". All the code has spent some time in
unstable. [At the moment, for example KDE 3.x is going into testing, after
being in unstable for months - replacing KDE 2.x which was in the last release.] It's stable enough to work with for days/weeks/months.
As up to date as RH 9.0
Unstable is bleeding edge - but works well and is regularly fixed.
Not for mission critical code but certainly good enough for daily work
HTH,
Andy
[Not speaking for anyone else]
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