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; unstable: The unstable distribution is where active development of Debian occurs. Generally, this distribution is run by developers and those who like to live on the edge. It's where you have to go if you want things as soon as they come out - packages don't move to testing as quickly as you might like them to.
There are other criterion
-; experimental : So unstable that unstable doesn't even want them. You have to get these packages from other apt repositories. They are labelled experiemental
so you don't install them unless you __really really__ want to, and tell apt that with ''apt-get -t experimental package''.
+; experimental : So unstable that unstable doesn't even want them. You have to get these packages from other apt repositories. They are labelled experimental
so you don't install them unless you __really really__ want to, and tell apt that with ''apt-get -t experimental package''.
; volatile : a "backports-esque" repository that updates packages that are made useless by their outdatedness, for example virus defintions and [GAIM], which breaks when protocols change. Designed to be able to used as safely as security.
The current (at time of writing) stable distribution of Debian is 3.1, codenamed sarge. It was released on June 6th, 2005. Check http://www.debian.org/releases/ to ensure it is still current, and if not, come back and edit the wiki so it is. The current testing distribution is etch. Eventually, etch will become stable (a FeatureFreeze will occur), sarge will become an unsupported older distribution, and the testing tree will be reborn with a new name.
