31 ms·
> Ironic that today it is the dependable system. Still flexible enough for development, but I guess priorities have changed. Testing is pretty stable for somet
by ilyt 3y ago
> Ironic that today it is the dependable system. Still flexible enough for development, but I guess priorities have changed.
Testing is pretty stable for something named "testing" and unstable is remarkably stable for something called stable. Well, except that one month every 2 years after release where all that was frozen for release gets unfrozen..
And it being stable is not only important feature. The upgrades just work, better than in any other distro I tested (unless you make frankendebian but even then surprisingly often it also "just works". Slap unattended-upgrades package with some settings and you can basically forget it if it is just some service
- Doxin 3y agoI honestly think debian does itself a disservice with calling testing testing. Testing is what any other distro would call stable, and stable is the sort of stable you need for running nuclear reactors and the like. How many people installed debian stable and bounced off because all the packages were quite old?