Debian-Specific
The Debian Web site has information on a great deal, principally concerning the Debian distributions, of which at least two exist at all times, a stable version and an unstable version. Debian developers only update the stable version when a security problem is found. Otherwise, all new packages go into unstable. At a time determined by the leadership, the unstable version is frozen, a new unstable created, and bugs in the frozen version are squashed. After they are happy that the bugs are minimal, frozen becomes stable. Recently there's been discussion of a "slushy" version that's more stable than unstable, but not good enough to be stable. This is to address complaints that Debian is always "late," that is, they are the last ...
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