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Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development ProcessSignificant change in Mandrake Linux Development ProcessPosted Feb 4, 2004 14:18 UTC (Wed) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)In reply to: Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development Process by coriordan Parent article: Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development Process It's comparable to Debian to a certain degree, but the match is not very close. First, if I understood it correctly, the stable and the "community" version will actually be identical 90% of the time, the only exception being twice a year a new community-version comes out, and after shaking out the bugs, "community+bugfixes" gets released as the "official". Secondly, Debian "Stable" is commonly refered to as "stale", I'm not saying it's good or it's bad, but the fact is Debian Stable tends to at all times be rather far away from the bleeding edge, thus Debian is probably unique in being the only distribution where basically noone uses, or even recommends on using, the "stable" version. Least of all home-users and enthusiast, but even for a sever, stable is in many cases inapropriate. (and in other cases where stability is everything and you need no features not present a year or two ago it's perfectly apropriate) Everyone I know who use Debian runs unstable or testing. And they recommend it to newbies too; "Don't use stable, that'll only give you a dated impression".
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