"Stable" operating system - what does it mean exactly?

Posted by Maciej Ziarko on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Maciej Ziarko
Published on 2011-03-31T19:55:47Z Indexed on 2014/06/10 15:29 UTC
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I've been using Linux for more than 2 years now, and I'm a satisfied user. I started with Ubuntu, then switched to Fedora and now I'm fond of Linux Mint.

Linux is often described as "stable". I have some inkling of what it might mean, but today I felt the need to understand it completely.

So my question is...

What does it mean that operating system is stable? What are the features of stable system?

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