Just be thankful that it's not the Windows definition of "stable".
Remembewr that you can only 'tickle a system' just so much, before it dies laughing at you. Ian -----Original Message----- From: Steve Kowalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:03 PM To: Noah L. Meyerhans Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Currency of packages On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:20:52PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans uttered: > I don't agree. I think "stable" is an innapropriate name. The prime > example for this is slink, which included GNOME 0.3.something. This was > released after GNOME 1.0 came out. Let me tell you, there was nothing > at all "stable" about GNOME 0.3 ever. I wish we could come up with > better terms than stable, testing, and unstable. I have yet to think of > any, though. > I usually tell my friends: "Rock-solid" == stable "Mildly Annoying" == testing "Look out for that bus!" == unstable But, I doubt I'm going to sway anyone with names like that. :-) -- Steve "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest." --Me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]