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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/3/2013 8:16 PM, Michael Rasmussen
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 00:26:52 +0100
"J.D. Ackle" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jdalinux@yahoo.com.br"><jdalinux@yahoo.com.br></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">If I'm not mistaken, CentOS (an enterprise Linux distro) is based on this Debian release.
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<pre wrap="">CentOS is based on Redhat.
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<pre wrap="">Again, if not mistaken, this is the release Ubuntu and its derivatives is based on.
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<pre wrap="">Ubuntu as of today seems to be more and more based on Debian
Experimental. Until and including 10.04 it was based on Debian Testing
added some packages from Unstable but from 10.10 onwards a gradual
shift towards more and more from Experimental has been the policy.
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Are you speaking about non-LTS versions? According to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS</a> "Instead of doing an automatic full
package import from Debian unstable, we will do it from Debian <strong>testing<sup>1</sup></strong>."
The footnote says "<small><strong>1.</strong> We reserve the right
to <em>selectively</em> pull in updates from unstable, if we
believe the stability of the package in Debian is better than what
is in the current Ubuntu archive."<br>
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I've had 0 problems with 12.04 LTS, having used for about a year
for several servers, doing frequent apt-get updates. But this has
been server use, not desktop (and I haven't used Claws on it).<br>
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