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		Doxin on Aug 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Deb... I honestly think debian does itself a disservice with calling testing testing. Testing is what any other distro would call stable, and stable is the sort of stable you need for running nuclear reactors and the like. How many people installed debian stable and bounced off because all the packages were quite old?

ilyt on Aug 17, 2023 [–]

Hell, Ubuntu builds it's "stable" release from Debian's testing.

Maybe just call it "next" instead of testing ?

Doxin on Aug 18, 2023 | [–]

Honestly I'd call testing stable, and stable something like "rock solid" or whatnot. Testing is for sure plenty stable for day-to-day desktop use.

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