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About FreeBSD, I've heard that its' software is lagging behind many fast updating Linux distros but is extremely reliable, how does Debian Testing compare to so
by type0 8y ago
About FreeBSD, I've heard that its' software is lagging behind many fast updating Linux distros but is extremely reliable, how does Debian Testing compare to something like TrueOS i.e FreeBSD-Current stuff?
P.S when I say lagging behind I don't mean the server things but rather on the developer side.
- hs86 8y agoThe base OS and the installed 3rd party software (ports/packages) are on different release models. The base is either stable/LTS (~5 years support) or rolling if you track -CURRENT. For the 3rd party software it is either rolling or stable in short lived quarterly branches. Most server side software is usually pretty up to date but some desktop-related tools can be outdated for a while. You might want to take a look at [0] and especially at the commit history of some fairly popular desktops like Gnome3 [1] or KDE5 [2]. They got updated recently but it took quite a while. [0] https://www.freshports.org/ https://www.freshports.org/ [1] https://www.freshports.org/x11/gnome3/ https://www.freshports.org/x11/gnome3/ [2] https://www.freshports.org/x11/kde5/ https://www.freshports.org/x11/kde5/