[Klug-general] Debian 4.0 released

[George Prowse]

John K Masters wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:12:06 +0100
> George Prowse <cokehabit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Laurence Southon wrote:
>>     
>>> I would not have known this if a friend had not alerted me. Debian
>>> 4.0 (Etch) is now the stable release as of 8th April 07:-
>>>
>>> http://www.uk.debian.org/News/2007/20070408
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Laurence Southon
>>> Rochester
>>>
>>>       
>> 21 months between releases???!!! You have to be joking. Debian is
>> just taking the piss. Why bother releasing versions?
>>
>> George
>>
>>     
> Stable release is what it says - stable. Able to run mission critical
> servers. There are plenty of other options in Debian. Personally I run
> 2 web servers on the current stable, a laptop on testing which is a
> rolling update, a desktop on stable and a desktop on unstable which is
> what all the other derivatives base on and is why they keep breaking.
> Linux is about choices and Debian gives you more choice than any other
> distro.
>
> Regards, John
>
>   
How come every other distro manages to release a stable version every 6 
months?

"an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.14," - isn't 
stable 2.16? RHEL 5 even comes with 2.18 and that is the mission 
critical server of choice...