I might be missing something but what's the big deal with release cycles? On my PCs I have installed Debian once and having started with 3.1 Stable I'm now at the current Unstable.

To my mind one of the beauties of Debian is that it evolves smoothly with one version sliding into the next.

Interesting. That site is the blog of an (evidently) well-known FOSS developer. No indication that he is in any direct manner involved in Debian, but obviously he knows about the issue. Pretty clever, I'd say.

davcefai, I agree with you. For my main computer, I want a distro that is as "boring" as possible. By that I mean one that does everything I want it to and has rock solid reliability. The relatively slow release cycle of Debian is a strength in my opinion and not a weakness.

Now I do have an older laptop that I use for "testing" (by that I mean playing around) purposes. Now I use that one to test all of the shiny new distros that come out. Its fun to play around with other distros, but so far, I have not found anything that makes me want to move away from Debian for real work.

Joe

It goes deeper than that. With Windows you get a new release every x years. Then you have to buy it, wipe your disc and install the new one. Then you go through driver hell.

I get a new version of Debian just about every morning, with downloads of up to 100MB. Nice, steady evolution and you can easily roll back if there is a problem. Some people seem to have been brainwashed into believing that you must have new releases rolled out with a fanfare.

Consumer Society anyone?

Agreed. I prefer stability, reliability over flashy eye candy. That is why I love Debian, Slack, and FreeBSD:-)

"LQ^QK boss, Debain, debain!" <----Gnome speak, but Herve would never make a good lawn ornament, LOL! TICH - Tongue In Cheek Humor

At nearly 61 years, STILL a smartazz, LOL!

Respectfully,
Don/KA5-LQJ