Difference between Debian and other flavours of Linux

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Thu Apr 20 18:18:19 UTC 2006


sujit sugathan wrote:
> Can someone explain the difference between Debian Linux and other 
> flavours of Linux.Why is Debian considered to be more stable.

Debian's release cycle has been extremely long.  As a result, their 
packages are well tested.  They also backport security fixes, so as a 
whole, the Debian platform changes infrequently.  It's a trade-off, 
forsaking the latest tech for older stuff that's known to be reliable.




More information about the fedora-list mailing list