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| − | I ran across an interesting analogy on Questions today that may work | + | I ran across an interesting analogy on Questions today that may work its way into this article: |
Jerry McAllister wrote: | Jerry McAllister wrote: | ||
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development image, but still in need of significant care. | development image, but still in need of significant care. | ||
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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. | 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]] 11: | + | --[[User:Joe|Joe]] 11:58, 4 Jan 2006 (EST) |
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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 11:58, 4 Jan 2006 (EST)
