20 Mar
2009
20 Mar
'09
7:38 a.m.
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
No. Stability implies less susceptibility to crashes/downtime. What you're talking about is compatibility. Get your terminology right.
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 :)
And btw supporting an IDE controller off Intels motherboards isn't some hack that it took time to get through Debian's QA.
- Dinesh