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I'm confused about debian stable vs testing vs unstable.
As the joke goes: unstable means testing, testing means stable and stable means old.
JoshTriplett
on Jan 17, 2014
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I've always heard it joked that "unstable is two letters from usable, and stable is one letter from stale". (I personally run unstable on laptops/desktops and stable on servers, and appreciate both.)
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As the joke goes: unstable means testing, testing means stable and stable means old.