On 26/01/2021 10:10, Tixy wrote: > 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. > Thanks to all. Bullseye up and running: alls well that ends well.
Peter HB
