Back Again

[Antonio Olivares]

----- Original Message ----
From: Claude Jones <cjones at levitjames.com>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 1:38:45 PM
Subject: Re: Back Again

On Wednesday August 1 2007 12:12:38 pm Antonio Olivares wrote:
> I am no expert, but from what I have learned through the years
> using Debian based distros/live cd's, Knoppix, Kanotix, DSL,
> etc.
>
> Debian Woody is older
> Debian Etch is the stable branch of Debian
> Debian Sid is the testing/unstable branch of Debian.
> There's also Debian Lenny
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.en.html
>
>
>
> Other codenames that have been already used are: buzz for
> release 1.1, rex for release 1.2, bo for releases 1.3.x,
> hamm for release 2.0, slink for release 2.1,
> potato for release 2.2, woody for release 3.0,
> sarge for release 3.1, and etch for release 4.0

I guess I was confusing release 4 with Testing. I am definitely 
not a Debian expert. Is there some truth to the stories I've 
read repeatedly in recent times, that Debian was not lagging as 
far back as it once did, in your experience?

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA

-- 

Claude,

You are correct.  Debian stayed behind the times, but with the new release "Etch" it is catching up.  It provided stability by keeping older packages and if you wanted newer packages you could enable the testing branch called sid.  Kanotix was based on Debian Sid and now a newer distro named "Sidux" is based on Debian Sid.  These are the Debian equivalent of Fedora's Rawhide.

While I have never installed Debian to one of my computers, I have ran Knoppix, Kanotix, DSL, and others which are based on Debian.  

Regards,

Antonio 





       
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