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Operating Systems Linux Debian Debian Testing (Is it Stable) Post 302768803 by bakunin on Saturday 9th of February 2013 05:54:50 PM

02-09-2013

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Debian is probably the distribution with the most conservative attitude of all when it comes to version acceptance. Use a "Debian Stable" if you want something which will still be running in the next ice-age. "Debian Testing" and "Debian Unstable" are by no means insecure or crash-prone, just not that rigorously tested as "Stable".

For your laptop the advatages of having newer software, which is probably farther developed by far outweighs the disadvantage of having statistically one crash more every 20 years. As long as you don't control atomic power plants or similarily sensitive things with this system you probably will come to like it. I have a "Debian Unstable" somewhere on my notebook and never had any problems with it, I mainly use Fedora Core, but that is more because of personal taste than because of any shortcoming of Debian.

I hope this helps.

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debian::copyright::stanza::license

Debian::Copyright::Stanza::License(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   Debian::Copyright::Stanza::License(3pm)

NAME

       Debian::Copyright::Stanza::License - License stanza of Debian copyright file

VERSION

       This document describes Debian::Copyright::Stanza::License version 0.1 .

SYNOPSIS

	   my $copy = Debian::Copyright::Stanza::License->new(\%data);
	   print $copy; 			# auto-stringification

DESCRIPTION

       Debian::Copyright::Stanza::License can be used for representation and manipulation of a "License:" stanza of Debian copyright files in an
       object-oriented way. Converts itself to a textual representation in string context.

FIELDS

       The supported fields for License stanzas are listed below.

       Note that real copyright fields may contain dashes in their names. These are replaced with underscores.

       License

CONSTRUCTOR

       new
       new( { field => value, ... } )
	   Creates a new Debian::Copyright::Stanza::License object and optionally initialises it with the supplied data.

SEE ALSO

       Debian::Copyright::Stanza::License inherits most of its functionality from Debian::Copyright::Stanza

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright (C) 2011 Nicholas Bamber nicholas@periapt.co.uk

       This module is substantially based upon Debian::Control::Stanza::Source.  Copyright (C) 2009 Damyan Ivanov dmn@debian.org

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-08-27				   Debian::Copyright::Stanza::License(3pm)