> It means that, among other things, it doesn't get any major updates to core software. That is the whole point of "stable". It does get security updates and b

> It means that, among other things, it doesn't get any major updates to core software. That is the whole point of "stable". It does get security updates and bug fixes, of course. Most major Linux distros work that way (except for rolling release systems like Gentoo or Arch, of course) - once a version is released, the versions of the software packages are frozen. In return, you get software that is usually very, well, stable. So "stable" means exactly what I think it means. (Anyway a general phrasing like "Don't use stable" is useless - different people have different needs, and for a lot of us, Debian stable works very well, thank you very much.)