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OpenStreetMap Migrates to Debian 12
- anthk 2y agoRelated: simple FTLK based OSM map viewer and editor: https://github.com/shugaa/florb https://github.com/shugaa/florb It will run on legacy machines pretty fast.
- LorenDB 2y ago> This pushed us onto newer mainline kernels, which led us toward Debian. On Debian 12 we could simply install the backport kernel and the performance issues were solved. It's funny to think of moving from Ubuntu to Debian for newer kernels.
- rstuart4133 2y agoPerhaps it's funny, but it's also a marketing coup for Ubuntu. Yes Debian stable is old. It's frozen for over a year in testing before being released. That means while Debian is testing stable, Ubuntu has done two releases. But ... Debian also provides https://backports.debian.org/ https://backports.debian.org/ which is current versions packages backported to stable. It's painless to use. Once you use a package in backports it is automatically upgraded as new version arrive, which is usually newer than the Ubuntu version. Backports has been a thing forever, and it means you can run the newest version of a few choice packages while keeping everything else on a distribution that manages to be the most stable and bug free I've used, while still receiving security patches. Yet, Ubuntu's main selling point is it is a more modern version of Debian. In my experience it's more of a snapshot of "Debian testing" (Debian's rolling version), at about the quality you'd expect from a testing snapshot, with some Ubuntu additions. The quality of the additions range from "not bad" (eg: Desktop manager), to "what are you thinking" (eg: snap).
- leoh 2y agoIt’s sad though because maybe 90% (?) of what’s sensible about Ubuntu is probably just Debian