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to: AARON THOMAS
from: GERRIT KUEHN
date: 2021-01-03 10:24:00
subject: Re: Great!

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sufficiently outdated yet, and a dysfunctional version of inn is missing for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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