On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:22:12 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I also find the larger number of packages integrated and tested in a
release more user friendly, and the fact that Sid has new packages,
and not old ones like Ubuntu releases do.
Could you expand on that? Debian runs stable + testing + unstable,
with completely outdated packages in stable, while ubuntu has a six
month release cycle, more or less, and as far as I can see, a
reasonable correspondence to debian testing.
In fact, on a ubuntu box recently updated to the new version (gutsy) I
get -
suresh@frodo 22:44:55 <~> $ cat /etc/debian_version lenny/sid
Any criticism applied about "outdated packages" might well be applied
to all other debian versions other than unstable, come to think of it.