Actually, Debian Testing is a bad alternative when wishing to trade off stability vs. being up-to-date.
On one hand, while Debian Testing is mostly stable, things break all the time (and get fixed within few days). Not good when you depend upon a working system for your work. The worst breakages occur during the first weeks after Debian Testing goes out of freeze, following a Debian Stable release. On the other hand, Debian Testing gets frozen (except for bug fixes) for several months each two years or so, while a new Debian Stable release is being made. The best use case for Debian Testing is for someone who develops (or adapts) software for running in a Debian installation, and needs to test it in a live system. On my current main PC I use Debian Stable (Debian Jessie at the moment), and until recently I used Debian Testing on a netbook which I use for lecture notetaking. I learned early in the game not to update packages on the netbook for few days before lectures and other events, for which I need notetaking. --- Omer On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 15:17 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > I tried to avoid this discussion but I'm a little surprised that > nobody mentioned Debian Testing. > I've used it as a desktop for a decade or so and it had a great > combination of very good stability (i.e. I can't recall it ever > disappointed me) and still relatively up to date. > But then again - it's been a while since I used it. > > These days I use Ubuntu LTS for servers and Mac for laptop, and for a > few months around a year ago also Ubuntu LTS for a work laptop. > > On 2 December 2015 at 06:35, Geoff Shang <ge...@quitelikely.com> > wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Omer Zak wrote: > > Yet another option is to use Debian Stable as the host > operating system, > like I did so far, but compile and install my own > kernel builds > according to the instructions in places such as: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-building-installing-a-custom-linux-kernel/ > > You can also use Debian Backports to get more recent kernel > releases. > > deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main > contrib non-free > > Here's the most recent kernel in jessie-backports at time of > writing: > > Package: linux-image-4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 > Source: linux > Version: 4.2.6-1~bpo8+1 -- You haven't made an impact on the world before you caused a Debian release to be named after Snufkin. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
