On Tue, 2021-01-26 at 09:31 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 25 ian 21, 18:12:18, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote [...] > > > > Hello Dan, I've been using Bullseye for several months, but thought I'd > > better stay with Buster as this m/c was bought for a naive friend. It > > now looks as if Bullseye is the better bet so I'll give it a go tomorrow. > > The freeze for bullseye has already started, so the usual warnings are > against using testing are relaxed. > > https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html > > There will still be many updates until the release, but generally only > minor and/or Debian only versions, to fix release critical bugs.
But note that security fixes may be slow. I'm using Bullseye and the last security update to Firefox on Jan 8th took 9 days to migrate from unstable to testing. Thought I'd mention this, because Peter says the machine is being setup for a 'naive friend' so that would imply relying on getting security fixes promptly and without manual intervention. In my case, I saw the security announcement so installed Firefox manually from unstable, but unknown to me at the time, one of the updated dependences had a critical bug that broke several other programs in obscure ways. -- Tixy
