No. Debian's greatest achievement is creating a 100% free ( as in beer and free speech ), community supported GNU/Linux operating system.
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Really, I don't understand why people always complain about Debian not releasing often. Why is it so important to install a new cd for you?
Just move to testing or unstable, run dselect everyday and you will see new packages are added and updated every day.
I think people got used to upgrade distro to new releases often with Red Hat, Mandrake,... But why is it that important? With Debian, you can have a system very up to date (testing or unstable) without needing to install a new distro version every month. What's the problem with the Debian way of doing things?
Re:New to Debian
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Because a) some people don't have broadband so they want a CD of the software they are actually going to run b) only stable releases have timely security updates c) installing security updates on unstable can require downloading 100s of MB due to pulling in other updated packages. d) stable won't even install on some newer hardware without guru knowledge e) unstable is sometimes buggy and can make a system unbootable, or make the user unable to log in. f) some people want to run reasonably recent software but without it changing every day. g) Unstable can be horribly broken during things like a gcc 3 transition
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No. Debian's greatest achievement is creating a 100% free ( as in beer and free speech ), community supported GNU/Linux operating system.
Really, I don't understand why people always complain about Debian not releasing often. Why is it so important to install a new cd for you?
... But why is it that important?
Just move to testing or unstable, run dselect everyday and you will see new packages are added and updated every day.
I think people got used to upgrade distro to new releases often with Red Hat, Mandrake,
With Debian, you can have a system very up to date (testing or unstable) without needing to install a new distro version every month.
What's the problem with the Debian way of doing things?
Because
a) some people don't have broadband so they want a CD of the software they are actually going to run
b) only stable releases have timely security updates
c) installing security updates on unstable can require downloading 100s of MB due to pulling in other updated packages.
d) stable won't even install on some newer hardware without guru knowledge
e) unstable is sometimes buggy and can make a system unbootable, or make the user unable to log in.
f) some people want to run reasonably recent software but without it changing every day.
g) Unstable can be horribly broken during things like a gcc 3 transition