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Debian testing is both reliable enough (I think there were no more than 2 cases when an upgrade would lead to an unusable state in the past 8 years) and not too
by wazoox 15y ago
Debian testing is both reliable enough (I think there were no more than 2 cases when an upgrade would lead to an unusable state in the past 8 years) and not too far behind the bleeding edge. Or you could use a rolling release distro such as gentoo, arch, or in a related world FreeBSD.
- danieldk 15y agoThe problem with Debian Testing is that once something breaks badly, you usually have to wait two weeks until it is fixed, because changes need to trickle down from Sid. In my experience, Sid is more useful as a desktop. But it's certainly not for the beginner.