On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 06:28 -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: > I'll argue this. The packages that make it in to testing go through > just as much QA as an "enterprise" release.
Who's talking about Debian Testing? Testing is like a more stable version of Fedora. It might be more reliable, but it's still constantly shifting under you. Apples to apples would be RHEL to Debian Stable. > Trivial, sure, but are you going to tell me that Red Hat is doing > quality testing on every package in the operating system? Yes and no. No I don't claim RH is doing any extra testing for packages like ImageMagick or gedit. But they are doing extra testing of core packages like the kernel, glibc and Python. More importantly, they're committed to addressing bugs in that exact version of the package even if they're found 3 years from now. With Debian Testing, you can't build a server around a specific package version and continue to use it for years. With RHEL and Debian Stable you can. -- "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
