Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[Michael Hipp]

David Bandel wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:58:11 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
> <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

>>OK, i talked to uriah.  In a nutshell they got sick of waiting for debian
>>to do a major release, and they needed a distro that released early &
>>often & predictably.  The problem with waiting for debian is that when
>>they did release, since it was so long since the last major release, a ton
>>of stuff on the servers were broken (there were 3 glibc changes, at least
>>2 gcc changes, and massive amounts of other 'lesser' changes).
>>
> 
> 
> Well, this is true if and only if you used exclusively stable.  I use
> testing and have no such problems.  Now unstable is just that, but I
> find testing to be sufficiently bleeding edge to keep up, but not so
> bleednig edge as to have stuff constantly borken.

How do you guys get security updates for anything other than stable?

Michael