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Originally Posted by bendsley
Oh, by the way, Debian sarge (testing) tree was frozen just recently to become the new stable branch soon. Woody (debian 3.0, stable) has been around for about 3 years. Debian gets a lot of criticism because they don't release enough for they're stable branch. But, what people also don't realize is that the stable branch will never ever break. They can move to the testing branch (sarge) if they're more ambitious or to the unstable branch (sid) if they're want bleeding edge.
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That's one of the trademark things I admire about Debian. The other is that it'll run on anything with a processor and motherboard. I was kind of shocked when I read on Slashdot a few months ago that Debian was considering dropping support for a lot of platforms.