This week at LWN: Why people don't test development distributions

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 17, 2009 7:44 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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Development distributions play a crucial role in the free software ecosystem. They are the proving ground where much new software is first exposed to a wider user community; they are also the place where this software demonstrates how well it plays with other packages. Distributors would like to see wider testing of their development releases, but, as your editor's recent experience shows, there are limits to how wide this testing community can be expected to be.

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