It won't become stable until 2.6.0 is released -- if history is any lesson.
Probably sometime in 2003.  :)

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Harris" <PaulHarris at Bigfoot.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:46 AM
Subject: [TCLUG] Debian stable


> Because it's ... umm ... stable.  :) OK, that's a bit lame because 2.4
seems to have proven itself by now, but Debian is deliberately conservative,
and therefore dependable (Kind of like Strom Thurmond? - not necesarily what
you want, but at least you know what it is.  The conservative bit translates
directly).
>
> Having said that it's easy to upgrade to Woody, which is up to 2.4.16 last
time I checked, and is running just fine on my box (except for all the stuff
I don't know how to do yet, but that's down to me not it!)
>
> Finally Woody is due to become the new stable soon - maybe Feb?
>
> Cheers, Paul
> --
>
> Second, I've been looking at Debian as another distro to install on a
system.  However, the one thing holding me back from it for the most part is
the stable version is still at 2.2.19 kernel it looks like.  Can someone
explain
> why Debian is so far behind in their stable release compared to all the
other distros?
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>
>
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