Subj : Re: Great!
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Sun Jan 03 2021 10:25:48

Hello Aaron!

03 Jan 21 00:35, Aaron Thomas wrote to bebyx:

 AT> I've heard that Debian is more "stable" than Ubuntu, but what is 
 AT> meant by that?

A long time ago (just increase the year and software version numbers below, and it'll probably still work these days ;-) there was a saying like

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Debian comes in three flavours: stale, rusting and broken. These are renamed once or twice per decade. Right now, "rusting" is actually already "stale", but it cannot be released officially before 2004 because gnome2 and kde3 are not sufficiently outdated yet, and a dysfunctional version of inn is missing for "broken".
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Regards,
Gerrit

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