Difference between Debian and other flavours of Linux

[Tim]

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

Les Mikesell:
> They don't have a release schedule.  That means if they haven't
> done a release for a long time and you want to run something
> current, you have to use the version they call 'unstable'.

You can't just get the package you want for the current, stable, system?

One of the dislikes I have with Fedora *is* the release schedule.
There'll be a release around a certain date, ready or not, sensible or
not.  A new release comes up around the time the last one has many of
the bugs ironed out, yet the new release is so radically different that
you can't take advantage of the information gleaned over the last one.
It won't be a fixed version of the prior release, it'll be a different
version.  It's case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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