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All quiet on the Debian Squeeze front

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Life, the Universe and Debian; By Steven Rosenberg
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When you run Debian Stable, you get used to updates to the system being few and far between. While there is certainly some truth to the open-source OS adage that bugs related to functionality (and not security) at release tend to stay unpatched, the emphasis in Debian on releasing when ready means there are theoretically (and practically) fewer broken pieces in the system and not as much need to push updates for non-security-related issues.

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