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Subject: Re: suggest renaming and extending the -CURRENT and -STABLE lines
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Christian Baer wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:58:51 +0200 Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately (for this developer-centric practice), the trend in large
>> and/or important production environments is - as seen in Linux (and
>> Solaris) - to severely limit major OS upgrades. 
> 
> I don't really see what's so unfortunate about that. Most admins
> (including myself) go by the rule "If it ain't broken, don't fix it!"

You misunderstood, I agree with the practice :) It's "unfortunate" for
developers :)