On Sat 07 Apr 2012 at 10:44:59 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 06 April 2012 23:16:46 Chris Bannister wrote: > > You seem to be confusing the meaning of stable in the distribution > > sense. It doesn't mean "free of bugs" or "unlikely to crash", it means > > unchanging/not moving. So by having backports you are changing that. > > Yes, I expressed that badly. Blame the fact that I was more than half asleep.
Excuses, excuses. :) > And of course, if I change it, it is not stable. But what name would you > give > to a Stable installation, which has had a very small number of changes > installed? It seems to me that it is legitimate to say: I want my desktop > to be basically Stable, but usable in the real world. And there is no > shorthand name for that. Stablish. (But it won't catch on.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120407102021.GJ16316@desktop
