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Don't use stable. Stable doesn't mean what you think it means. It means that, among other things, it doesn't get any major updates to core software.
by _RPM 10y ago
Don't use stable. Stable doesn't mean what you think it means. It means that, among other things, it doesn't get any major updates to core software.
- keithpeter 10y agoSome notes as to your use case would add to your comment I think. I have in the past run Sid (aka Unstable) for non-critical use on a laptop without too many issues.
- wiz21 10y agomajor problem with unstable is that you get completely addicted to upgrading your system each time a package evolve. That's a huge time sink, thanks Debian :-)
- krylon 10y ago> It means that, among other things, it doesn't get any major updates to core software. That is the whole point of "stable". It does get security updates and bug fixes, of course. Most major Linux distros work that way (except for rolling release systems like Gentoo or Arch, of course) - once a version is released, the versions of the software packages are frozen. In return, you get software that is usually very, well, stable. So "stable" means exactly what I think it means. (Anyway a general phrasing like "Don't use stable" is useless - different people have different needs, and for a lot of us, Debian stable works very well, thank you very much.)