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Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development ProcessSignificant change in Mandrake Linux Development ProcessPosted Feb 4, 2004 15:35 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (subscriber, #7544)In reply to: Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development Process by hingo Parent article: Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development Process
This gets messy. Debian actually has 4 package categories now. ("experimental" being the fourth) There isn't a whole "experimental" distribution though, it's more like a testing area or a pre-unstable category for individual packages or groups of packages. This change happened in 2003. So now, "unstable" is for packages that are known to work, so "unstable" is tested and quite stable, much like Mandrake "Community", except that "unstable" isn't officially supported (but it is supported by it's package maintainers). "testing" is like Mandrake "Official" and *is* supported AFAIK. (security updates etc.) "stable" is for boxes that you intend to install on the moon. So 99% of users can ignore "experimental" and "stable". Newbies or people that need very high reliability should choose "testing", for everyone else "unstable" is best. Mandrakes system improves on Debian in one aspect: they've decided not to bother supporting moon based installations.
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Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development Process Posted Feb 6, 2004 11:03 UTC (Fri) by hingo (subscriber, #14792) [Link] Ok, thanks for the update. I used to follow Debian rather closely once, but it seems I'velet my interests in that direction fade a little in the last year. From next week on I will again be administering a Debian box, the current plan is to go with the "moon-distribution" :-) henrik
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