Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Subject: Wonderful! I discovered that UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus is powered > by Debian Linux 9 > > UniFi OS UCK G2 Plus 2.5.11
... > Linux is everywhere! This also shows that Debian Linux is very stable for > it to be used in a commercial network device. This has a bunch of problems. - Ubiquiti frequently ignores the GPL. They don't make source available for their changes. - They also fail to make build tools available for their deployed software. As a user of their products, there are some things that you can't rebuild yourself. - They don't update quickly. The current stable release of Debian is Bullseye, version 11. It has been stable since mid-August of last year. You don't get the benefit of security improvements Debian has made, and you don't get to extend the useful lifetime of your machines once Ubiquitu stops supporting them. Overall, Ubiquiti's use of Debian is not to their users' benefit, and that's Ubiquiti's fault. -dsr-
