On Bugs and Linux Quality

[Daniel Mons]

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Karl Goetz wrote:
| Surely your not saying Debian stable has "faster adoption" then Red Hat
| EL? Or were you refering to release turn around time?

I know very few people who use Debian Stable at a desktop level.  Most
(including myself) use Debian Testing or Unstable, as it moves much
faster and provides much quicker downstream updates.

About the only place I've seen Debian Stable used in abundance is on
firewalls, servers, or on "install and forget" systems like high
performance clusters that are not connected to the internet, where a
solid, reliable base is needed to build on, and no "unknown factor"
updates/patches should be installed at a later date so as not to break
things or force service restarts.

Debian Stable is certainly more akin to RHEL.  But I tell you with no
surprise that RedHat have announced publicly on many occasions that the
desktop doesn't interest them in the slightest, and they are still
focussed on the server.  Compare and contrast to SuSE and Ubuntu who
have a much higher share of the Linux desktop market, and who both move
much quicker with their official releases.

- -Dan
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