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  From: Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  To  : Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@tellurian.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:15:51 +1030

Re: Black Magic and Kernel recompiles

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:57:05AM +1030, Matthew Geddes wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 10:53, David Lloyd wrote:
> 
> > > > On the other hand, Debian's stability is, at least partially, because
> > > > they don't release CD's all the time.

Debian CDs are available for:

	Stable (that's what you are talking about here)
	Testing
	Unstable

Unstable CDs track development to a resolution of one day. How much
fresher do you want? :-)

> > > Agreed, but it would be nice to have a happy medium.
> > 
> > It's called "Sid" at the moment...Debian's version of "unstable" seems to
> > be similar to what RedHat call "stable" ;-(
> 
> It's also not on CD, is it? 

Both CD and DVD. The DVDs can contain all Debian. I don't know of
anyone selling Sid on CD/DVD in Australia, which might make it a bit
academic.

How to get ISOs/DVDs without continual massive downloads, and without
using a mirror that has the images on it already: Jigdo.
http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd

With jigdo, the CDs can be as up-to-date as a system maintined with
apt-get, except in exceptional circumstances such as a bug in the CD
booting system or in jigdo.

D

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