On Mi, 15 sep 21, 09:54:29, John Hasler wrote:
> The Wanderer writes:
> > In theory you could, but in practice it would break well before that.
>
> I run Sid on my desktop. It's been years since I've had any breakage.
> I suspect that it's because I run FVWM, avoid anything connected with
> freed
On 9/15/2021 6:45 AM, Brian wrote
> I was also rather hoping Tanstaafl would contribute a few words on how
> the unstable model contrasts with Gentoo's rolling release model.
Well, it's been many years, but basically, you could select what
'branch' you were on using keywords (stable, testing, etc)
The Wanderer writes:
> In theory you could, but in practice it would break well before that.
I run Sid on my desktop. It's been years since I've had any breakage.
I suspect that it's because I run FVWM, avoid anything connected with
freedesktop.org or Gnome, and am careful about when to upgrade.
On 2021-09-14, Brian wrote:
>>
>> Hmmm... ok, so, I could run sid 'forever', as long as I keep it updated
>> regularly?
>
> Why not? Update when you want to. How does this differ from Gentoo's
> rolling release aspect? Go for testing if you want to be a little
> conservative?
>
>> Anyone do thi
On 2021-09-15 at 06:45, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 22:42:12 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> On 2021-09-14 at 16:33, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> Hmmm... ok, so, I could run sid 'forever', as long as I keep it
>>> updated regularly?
>>
>> In theory you could, but in practice it would break we
On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 22:42:12 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-09-14 at 16:33, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> > On 9/13/2021 11:02 AM, Brian wrote
> >
> >> On Mon 13 Sep 2021 at 10:18:54 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> So, I'm considering Debian for a new homebrew MX gateway I
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 10:06:47AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 14 sep 21, 16:33:55, Tanstaafl wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm... ok, so, I could run sid 'forever', as long as I keep it updated
> > regularly?
>
> Technically, yes.
>
> > Anyone do this for important (maybe not 'mission critical') s
On Ma, 14 sep 21, 16:33:55, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> Hmmm... ok, so, I could run sid 'forever', as long as I keep it updated
> regularly?
Technically, yes.
> Anyone do this for important (maybe not 'mission critical') servers?
I used to run sid as the main system on my daily driver laptop.
Having
On Ma, 14 sep 21, 23:18:48, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 16:33:55 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm... ok, so, I could run sid 'forever', as long as I keep it updated
> > regularly?
>
> Why not? Update when you want to. How does this differ from Gentoo's
> rolling release aspect? Go fo
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 04:33:55PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 9/13/2021 11:02 AM, Brian wrote
> > On Mon 13 Sep 2021 at 10:18:54 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> So, I'm considering Debian for a new homebrew MX gateway I want to set
> >> up, but it depends...
> >>
> >> I'm a form
On 2021-09-14 at 16:33, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 9/13/2021 11:02 AM, Brian wrote
>
>> On Mon 13 Sep 2021 at 10:18:54 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> So, I'm considering Debian for a new homebrew MX gateway I want
>>> to set up, but it depends...
>>>
>>> I'm a former Gentoo user, and
On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 16:33:55 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 9/13/2021 11:02 AM, Brian wrote
> > On Mon 13 Sep 2021 at 10:18:54 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> So, I'm considering Debian for a new homebrew MX gateway I want to set
> >> up, but it depends...
> >>
> >> I'm a former
Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> Anyone do this for important (maybe not 'mission critical') servers?
>
> I'm sure someone does, but it's not *wise*.
yes indeed. server + sid is contradicting somehow unless you do development
of server software
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 04:33:55PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Hmmm... ok, so, I could run sid 'forever', as long as I keep it updated
> regularly?
>
> Anyone do this for important (maybe not 'mission critical') servers?
I'm sure someone does, but it's not *wise*.
On 9/13/2021 11:02 AM, Brian wrote
> On Mon 13 Sep 2021 at 10:18:54 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> So, I'm considering Debian for a new homebrew MX gateway I want to set
>> up, but it depends...
>>
>> I'm a former Gentoo user, and really appreciated the rolling release
>> aspect, since i
Hi,
14 sept. 2021, 16:35 de amaca...@einval.com:
> Debian 11 - Bullseye - released on 14th July 2021 will have [at least] five
> years
> support as stable/oldstable.
>
> Three years between releases
>
~ two years ;)
> plus a year after the next release plus usually
> two years LTS support after
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 02:33:23AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 13 sep 21, 10:18:54, Tanstaafl wrote:
> >
> > I'm a former Gentoo user, and really appreciated the rolling release
> > aspect, since it meant no huge jumps between LTS releases with other
> > distros.
>
Debian 11 - Bullseye
On Lu, 13 sep 21, 10:18:54, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> I'm a former Gentoo user, and really appreciated the rolling release
> aspect, since it meant no huge jumps between LTS releases with other
> distros.
You already received good answers for your questions, so I'll just add
that one of Debian's stre
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:58:26AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> 6) After that year, the release goes into "long-term support" mode, and
>received security bug fix support from a different team. The LTS
>team may choose to support only server packages, not desktop packages.
>
A slight
On Mon 13 Sep 2021 at 10:18:54 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So, I'm considering Debian for a new homebrew MX gateway I want to set
> up, but it depends...
>
> I'm a former Gentoo user, and really appreciated the rolling release
> aspect, since it meant no huge jumps between LTS releases
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:18:54AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> I'm a former Gentoo user, and really appreciated the rolling release
> aspect, since it meant no huge jumps between LTS releases with other
> distros.
>
> So... what is the current LTS version and when is its EOL, and when will
> the nex
>
> So... what is the current LTS version and when is its EOL, and when will
> the next one be released, and what will be its EOL?
>
In Debian world "stable" version created every several years, so you can
move from one stable to another.
Here is info about current versions
https://wiki.debian.or
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