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The joke I've heard is: "unstable" means testing, "testing" means stable, and "stable" means old. I run stable for servers and testing for workstations. I don
by finnthehuman 8y ago
The joke I've heard is: "unstable" means testing, "testing" means stable, and "stable" means old.
I run stable for servers and testing for workstations. I don't use it on the desktop much anymore, just my secondary computer at work for things that don't require windows; and for VMs at home. I don't recall any bumps in the road on testing in a long time, but I guess that all depends on which packages you use and their maintainers.
- LeoPanthera 8y agoNote that testing (unlike stable AND unstable) doesn't get security updates.
- kelnos 8y agoNot entirely true. Oldstable and stable get security updates from the Debian Security Team. Unstable gets security updates as a part of package bumps, and maintainers will usually be fairly quick to bump or patch a package in unstable for security reasons. (IOW, Security Team doesn't touch unstable.) Security-related updates from unstable usually get promoted to testing fairly quickly (within a few days), depending on the severity of the vulnerability and drift between the version of the package in testing and unstable. Regardless, you can usually easily install security updates from unstable as soon as they get uploaded.