> - Debian's packages can be quite far behind, for example the current version of Boost is 1.74 where the offical release 1.81 Debian is released every two yea

> - Debian's packages can be quite far behind, for example the current version of Boost is 1.74 where the offical release 1.81 Debian is released every two years. Debian gets security updates through LTS for five years. If the packages in Debian are "old" it's because of the biennial release cycle. As a sysadmin I'm fine with that, and Debian is no worse than Ubuntu which has its LTS every two years as well. If you're on the desktop then there could be an advantage to running the more frequent non-LTS releases. But I'm fine with the biennial LTS, which makes Debian and Ubuntu roughly equivalent.