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| − | --[[User:Joe|Joe]] | + | I ran across an interesting analogy on Questions today that may work its way into this article: |
| + | Jerry McAllister wrote: | ||
| + | Yah, stable is better than alpha or the bleeding edge current | ||
| + | development image, but still in need of significant care. | ||
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| + | Think of how they report someone's health condition after a trauma. | ||
| + | Stable seems to mean they can finally move the patient from the | ||
| + | operating room to a bed with monitors and walk down and get lunch. | ||
| + | But, the patient is still a long way from being able to drive home. | ||
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| + | Just so, a FreeBSD version spends a long time in stable before | ||
| + | making it to RELEASE. | ||
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| + | I'm not sure I like refering to FBSD as a trauma patient... but the analogy certainly makes the "STABLE IS NOT THE MOST STABLE RELEASE" memorable. | ||
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| + | I may also want to explicitly mention that stable as a development release is in contrast to Debian, which is likely one of the mental stumbling blocks for many people with this concept. | ||
| + | --[[User:Joe|Joe]] 12:00, 4 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
Latest revision as of 12:00, 4 January 2006
I ran across an interesting analogy on Questions today that may work its way into this article: Jerry McAllister wrote:
Yah, stable is better than alpha or the bleeding edge current development image, but still in need of significant care. Think of how they report someone's health condition after a trauma. Stable seems to mean they can finally move the patient from the operating room to a bed with monitors and walk down and get lunch. But, the patient is still a long way from being able to drive home. Just so, a FreeBSD version spends a long time in stable before making it to RELEASE.
I'm not sure I like refering to FBSD as a trauma patient... but the analogy certainly makes the "STABLE IS NOT THE MOST STABLE RELEASE" memorable.
I may also want to explicitly mention that stable as a development release is in contrast to Debian, which is likely one of the mental stumbling blocks for many people with this concept. --Joe 12:00, 4 Jan 2006 (EST)
