Re: [ILUG-BOM] Debian install query

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Dinesh A. Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:

You do understand that stability is built on top of compatibility, right? So however "stable" your system is, if it meets with an incompatible / badly compatible piece of hardware then stability crashes :)

I thought for a moment that you were trying to be cheeky, but I guess you're not. I'll repeat again -- they're two completely unrelated concepts and deal with two completely different aspects of software.

Adobe Photoshop not being Linux compatible, for example, does not make Linux unstable. An application crashing because the distro rushed in to get the latest kernel/glibc without proper QA implies instability.

At least now I hope you get the difference.