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what's the Linux's bleeding edge ??

• Santosh83 10y ago
  Fedora Rawhide, Debian Sid, Arch, Ubuntu Development Version, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Of these Tumbleweed waits a while before upgrading from upstream so it's not literally the bleeding edge. So is Ubuntu Development version. And only Arch and Tumbleweed are recommended to be used by plain users (as opposed to developers and beta testers).
  • shmerl 10y ago
    Debian testing used to be recommended.
    • Santosh83 10y ago
      Yes, but Testing isn't a full rolling release AFAIK. It undergoes a lengthy freeze before a new Stable is released and I believe manual intervention is needed to continue staying on Testing. Plus security patches take a bit of time to land on Testing from Sid, so the Debian guys don't recommend Testing if you need the fastest access to security updates.
      • shmerl 10y ago
        > Yes, but Testing isn't a full rolling release AFAIK. It undergoes a lengthy freeze before a new Stable is released Not more than unstable really. The only difference, testing is more polished overall. Other than that, they are both semi-rolling. Debian tried to reduce freeze period for a while already, and the last one was shorter than one before that. > and I believe manual intervention is needed to continue staying on Testing. What kind? Normally it should just roll forward.
• shmerl 10y ago
  I think simply rolling distros.