Well, for the sake of clarity, lets separate stability and reliability? Stability means unchanging. Reliable means it won’t crash or behave in unexpected ways.
If you have a better word for the concept of unchanging functionality and interfaces, I’m open to using that in this context. In describing distros, I’ve only come across the word stable for this. Reliable is a wider concept to me, and also includes being relatively free of bugs. A stable distro can still be buggy, if it’s the same bugs tomorrow as yesterday.
You wrote “It is a myth that arch is unstable”. Arch, being rolling release, is by definition changing. This is, imho, the opposite of stable. This is why it’s important to use precise words. I have no interest in continuing this discussion since you don’t seem to argue in good faith.
@jobbies@pmk arch means you cannot omit any update. If you do notsync pacman, you will not be able install any package (because they removing old versions from servers very quickly). If you sync pzcman and not update entire system, it will possiboy break on any package installation
You are mistaken about the definition of the word “stable” in the computing context generally.
In the case of both Debian stable and other software which has “stable” releases, it does not mean that there won’t be any updates to the stable release, it means that it was thoroughly tested prior to release and whatever changes might need to be made later can be expected to be relatively minimal and also well tested.
Well, for the sake of clarity, lets separate stability and reliability? Stability means unchanging. Reliable means it won’t crash or behave in unexpected ways.
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If you have a better word for the concept of unchanging functionality and interfaces, I’m open to using that in this context. In describing distros, I’ve only come across the word stable for this. Reliable is a wider concept to me, and also includes being relatively free of bugs. A stable distro can still be buggy, if it’s the same bugs tomorrow as yesterday.
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You wrote “It is a myth that arch is unstable”. Arch, being rolling release, is by definition changing. This is, imho, the opposite of stable. This is why it’s important to use precise words. I have no interest in continuing this discussion since you don’t seem to argue in good faith.
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@jobbies @pmk arch means you cannot omit any update. If you do notsync pacman, you will not be able install any package (because they removing old versions from servers very quickly). If you sync pzcman and not update entire system, it will possiboy break on any package installation
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You are mistaken about the definition of the word “stable” in the computing context generally.
In the case of both Debian stable and other software which has “stable” releases, it does not mean that there won’t be any updates to the stable release, it means that it was thoroughly tested prior to release and whatever changes might need to be made later can be expected to be relatively minimal and also well tested.