[tde-users] Re: Understanding kernel versions in Debian

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sunday 17 March 2024, Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users was heard to say: It's a reputation which has been earned over time. There have been several times where Debian Stable has been maintained for years waiting on the next release. Thus "backports" and "volatile" and other efforts to try to keep Stable usable as other distributions seemed to race ahead. So while that reputation is not always accurate at a given moment, the Debian developers do put a lot of effort into making sure if you run Stable it is truly stable. That any updates don't break anything. I ran Debian Sid (Unstable) for a decade. I found the variety of issues that came up to be stimulating, but any time I've helped someone else use Debian I always use Stable. As a list-relevant example, when Debian changed to KDE4, I stopped upgrading until TDE came out so that KDE3 would not be over-written. As long as everything keeps working, really, why update at all? Curt- - -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"