-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sunday 17 March 2024, Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users was heard to say: > I am trying to understand why Debian (especially > stable) has the reputation as being more conservative than other > distributions. It's a reputation which has been earned over time. There have been several times where Debian Stable has been maintained for years waiting on the next release. Thus "backports" and "volatile" and other efforts to try to keep Stable usable as other distributions seemed to race ahead. So while that reputation is not always accurate at a given moment, the Debian developers do put a lot of effort into making sure if you run Stable it is truly stable. That any updates don't break anything. I ran Debian Sid (Unstable) for a decade. I found the variety of issues that came up to be stimulating, but any time I've helped someone else use Debian I always use Stable. As a list-relevant example, when Debian changed to KDE4, I stopped upgrading until TDE came out so that KDE3 would not be over-written. As long as everything keeps working, really, why update at all? Curt- - -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEAREIAB0WIQTaYVhJsIalt8scIDa2T1fo1pHhqQUCZfekAQAKCRC2T1fo1pHh qVzRAP9xsw6Ea0HWcZwF7VfgY+ALyDlYMBdxIbBpyh9RiXyFEAEA5XzkB1QFyyx3 YD5UQKhBDuic+eKZMlgZ/z2tp2cr6Xg= =ydne -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
