Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Dec 2007 22:41 UTC, submitted by Patrik Buckau
"The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems. Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away 4.0 CDs or DVDs but only to update against ftp.debian.org after an installation, in order to incorporate those late changes. Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update."
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2005-08-15
Which again involves some tweaking. The "stable" branch isn't all that stable on the desktop, just because of their packaging policy. By using older versions they have to maintain and bugfix these packages themselves, which is quite impossible to keep up with projects like KDE and GNOME (although GNOME is better supported, the KDE version of the last stable one used to crash like hell, hadn't experienced that since the last kubuntu alpha cd I installed). Their constant 'I want to be in control' policy doesn't serve them well, like what happened with Iceweasel, instead of using the mozilla foundation's resources to solve the bugs in the program they give themselves useless work to solve the same problems.