Experimental (Debian)
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The experimental repository is the part of Debian where the most bleeding edge and likely unstable software is being soaked before it will be robust and tested at least to be able to get into the unstable repository.
Unlike other Debian repositories (stable, testing, unstable), the experimental repository does not provide a complete distribution, so it could be used only together with some other Debian distributions. That is one of the reasons why the experimental repository does not have a codename; although to clearly reflect the status of experimental repository and to keep the spirit of naming the Debian repositories after the characters of Toy Story, it was [suggested] once to name the experimental repository as Scud. The explanation of proposal is that Scud is also the character of Toy Story, a dog of Sid who broke even more toys than Sid himself did, while sid is the permanent codename of unstable Debian repository.
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Debian distributions |
| Current distributions stable | testing | unstable sarge (3.1, stable) | etch (current testing) | sid (unstable) experimental (repository only, no distribution) |
| Old distributions oldstable buzz (1.1) | rex (1.2) | bo (1.3) | hamm (2.0) | slink (2.1) | potato (2.2) | woody (3.0) |
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