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    [–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    Ackshyually your distro can't get "stable" in an update. "stable" means that the distro should not have any new issues introduced with updates in the first place.

    [–] Shareni@programming.dev 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    Ackshyually stable only relates to the release schedule. Stability is not reliability.

    [–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    ackshyually, we are both right.

    I would argue that the reason a slow release schedule is called stable because it aims to achieve stability and reliability.

    [–] Shareni@programming.dev 4 points 7 hours ago

    stable is called stable because of stability

    stability
noun [ U ]
uk
/stəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ us
/stəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
C1
a situation in which something is not likely to move or change:
a period of political stability

    The point of a stable distro is that it's unchanging. That way you have predictable issues that you can solve in the same way for the lifetime of that version.

    Reliability is a side benefit of maintainers choosing the best available version to freeze.