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I would put Debian Testing on that list. Although it's called "testing", it's at least as much stable as Arch and very suitable for the desktop user, Debian's "

I would put Debian Testing on that list. Although it's called "testing", it's at least as much stable as Arch and very suitable for the desktop user, Debian's "edge" release is unstable (codename sid).

shmerl 8y ago
Why is Debian testing lagging behind with uploading newer kernels? There is already 4.18.4 upstream release, and Debian unstable / testing still don't have any options past release candidate from experimental. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux
- blahyawnblah 8y ago
  Debian isn't known for the latest and greatest. They use what they determine to be stable for a given release and that's often a little bit older.
  - shmerl 8y ago
    So it means they are waiting for more bug fixes to upload 4.18.x? Then how are some releases uploaded to experimental?
    - Aloha 8y ago
      my understanding is that Debian/Ubuntu preference ABI stability within a release - and that ABI stability is not guaranteed going between kernel branches. I believe this is also the case with CentOS/RHEL too. I might be totally wrong about this.
- ognyankulev 8y ago
  I don't know specifically about why 4.18.x hasn't entered sid (unstable) yet but generally this means that uploading to sid may break other packages in some way, or the new version has something new that is still not packaged, integrated and tested properly with the rest of unstable packages.