Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 25th Oct 2003 05:13 UTC, submitted by Charles Krohn
Today, Ian Murdock described his recent work on APT to the Debian community. This announcement has far-ranging implications for the future of Fedora and Debian projects. Ars Technica has the details.
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"Perhaps relabeling "stable" as the "server branch" and opening a new "desktop" branch is worth considering."
Alternatively, and much more feasibly, a new subproject could be created to tailor Debian for the needs of the desktop. Among (many!) other things, said subproject could mix and match freely from the Stable, Testing and Unstable repositories and support the end result, relieving the end user of the hassles you describe.
And in fact, this has already been done. Check out http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop and take a look, or better yet, join in the fun.
Oh, and as an aside: for certain desktops (most notably workstations in corporate environments) Debian Stable is the ideal choice because of its stability, security and ease of maintenance (the *admins* are going to be the ones setting up and maintaining said systems, so these factors are of critical importance in such a setting.)