Rick Stevens wrote:
Fedora changes every 6 months--sometimes in major ways that are not necessarily backwards compatible with existing systems.
John Harris sent:
Oh, never mind, there it is. You never meant stable, you meant "It updates too often for me to figure out how to manage."
Stable has more than one meaning. Here's just two:
It's stable if it keeps running, and doesn't crash.
It's stable if it the way it works doesn't keep changing. This isn't just how you interface with the thing, it's also how other software interfaces with each other.