@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agoBell curve of Linux distributionslemmy.worldimagemessage-square242fedilinkarrow-up1414arrow-down175file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-22 years agoSo does debian not have like 4 years old packages anymore in stable or do I have to live in bleeding edge unstable?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoDebian and Ubuntu LTS are both ~2 year cycles, but Debian has traditionally been better than Ubuntu at picking up security fixes If you sign up for Ubuntu Pro, they might be as good as Debian, now, but I haven’t checked If you want faster than that, something other than Debian makes sense
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThere’s also “testing” in between. It’s not as stable as - well - “stable”, but I didn’t have trouble with it.
So does debian not have like 4 years old packages anymore in stable or do I have to live in bleeding edge unstable?
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Debian and Ubuntu LTS are both ~2 year cycles, but Debian has traditionally been better than Ubuntu at picking up security fixes
If you sign up for Ubuntu Pro, they might be as good as Debian, now, but I haven’t checked
If you want faster than that, something other than Debian makes sense
There’s also “testing” in between. It’s not as stable as - well - “stable”, but I didn’t have trouble with it.