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> the point is that you can still upgrade your "packages" on XP Like DirectX 10 or 11? The fact that you can upgrade is due to the abnormal shelf life of this
by wazoox 15y ago
> the point is that you can still upgrade your "packages" on XP
Like DirectX 10 or 11? The fact that you can upgrade is due to the abnormal shelf life of this particular release of windows. Try upgrading most programs on a win98SE or win2K machine.
> Obviously YOU don't know what you're talking about; Debian Mint (LMDE) is based on Debian-testing, which is supposedly HIGHLY unstable.
Mint is based upon Ubuntu, which is based upon debian-unstable (Sid). Debian testing hardly is highly unstable; most debian users run testing on their desktop systems, and keep stable to the servers.
- acabal 15y agoI think you're misunderstanding what I'm referring to. I'm specifically referring to rolling-release distros, of which LMDE is one. It's based on Debian-testing. Regular Mint is indeed a milestone-based distro built on Ubuntu. But LMDE is a rolling-release based on Debian-testing, with no relation to Ubuntu. That's specifically what I'm referring to. There are certainly other stable rolling-releases out there, but I think everyone can agree that a distro like Arch is about a lightyear away from being Grandma-friendly (which Ubuntu more or less aims to be).
- ori_b 15y ago> It's based on Debian-testing, which is more unstable than Debian-unstable Wrong. Testing is more stable than Unstable, which is more stable than Experimental. Furthermore, Ubuntu does extremely heavy modification to the Debian base, repackaging quite a number of it's core packages, and replacing a number of central parts at times (eg, the boot system). If you're going to say that people don't know what they're talking about, please make sure you do.
- acabal 15y agoYou're right, I've corrected my post. But I still stand by my general point :)