Debian

[Gunawan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Kaye" <jdkaye10 at yahoo.es>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Debian


> musicman wrote:
>
>> On 9/18/07, Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10 at yahoo.es> wrote:
>>
>>> For business/education/large-scale users, it's about stability. There's 
>>> a
>>> trade-off between stability and meeting release deadlines. Microsoft is
>>> an excellent example of this. If I were in charge of maintaining 150
>>> workstations, I think I'd prefer the stability option and take upgrades
>>> when they were ready.
>>
>> While this is mostly true, I wouldn't say that it all is. There is a
>> large security aspect in there as well.
>>
>> And one of the reasons why there are such feisty (!) fights on the
>> topic of debian's stable is exactly that - other systems are offering
>> all the new eyecandy/functionality of the latest and greatest
>> software, which can often be missing from debian stable.
>>
>> I find that the people who like debian stable the most are
>> distance-based sys admins who can just leave it go once the initial
>> conf is done, due to it's stability (and a cron job for updates).
>>
>> Since unstable/testing still usually provide a better experience than
>> the latest patched XP,
>
>> there's not really any reason for a desktop
>> user to worry about using stable.
> You mean testing/unstable I guess, and I agree. That was my point.
>> I hope the original poster has got what they was looking for?
> Likewise.
>
>>
>> cheers
>> L.
>>
> Cheers,
> J.
> -- 

Thank you for all of your concern.
Since I am a newbie but I have learn much of things beside many things also 
got confusing me.

Regards,
Gun