Tobias Burnus a écrit :
Well, sometimes the dependencies are broken in Factory. Therefore I would label Factory as "Unstable" and the alpha releases as "Testing".
For them who are not familiar with debian names, http://www.debian.org/releases/ stable is debian 3.1 Sarge. Debian become "3" 3 or 4 years ago :-), it's used mainly for servers, I don't know many users keeping it on a desktop. it could be seen as our 10.0 (or may be the comercial Novell version, with it's 5 years support sheme) Testing is "Etch". Testing cicle is very long, around two years, sometimes more. It's like our 10.1 (the zen updater problem is absolutely excluded from stable but not from testing). It's probably the most used one, not promoted as stable as long as bugs are seen. unstable is what the title say, safe for the name wich is always the same, that is "Sid". It can be seen as our "Factory". One must have a good heart to use unstable :-) I think this sheme is very nice. Of course it's perfectly fitted for the Debian all voluntary support system, but it has also the advantage to stop grinning about "bugs". It's normal to have bugs on testing I think we could keep the "stable" version on 10.0 as long as it's supported or at least one year after the 10.1 release. this shifting sheme set much less stress on the debuggers and in fact, there are probably too many SUSE versions around here. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos