• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Speak for yourself. I hate going back to old local Pis or servers I haven’t updated in years and realize that I’m 2+ releases behind and the one I’m on is already end-of-life.

  • XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml
    55·
    8 days ago

    Debian is honestly goated. Like I love me a nice boring stable distro that just keeps on chugging. I have done such crazy stuff to Debian and it just refuses to care. It’s like a nokia phone that got run over by a car and still works.

    • Humorless4483@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 days ago

      It’s the same for me for my Fedora install on my laptop, I installed version 38 when I got my laptop and now it’s on version 44, next week I’ll upgrade it to 45. It’s been rock solid, never had any issues with it.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
      17·
      8 days ago

      it is. at least in the digital world. good chance it’s running the server you are receiving my message through

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    10·
    8 days ago

    Debian has become my favorite server OS. Some more specialized distros are great for specific use cases, but for 90% of my stuff, I just install Debian and chill.

  • zemo@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 days ago

    I surfed a few distros before landing on Debian. It solved (almost) all the issues I had with Linux. Debian for life.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
    61·
    8 days ago

    How does Debian do level and security updates? Are they generally a good pace but userland starts consistent?

    • Nonagon ∞ Orc@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 days ago

      They backport security updates to the existing software versions on stable, which causes the packages to be secure without introducing new behavior. Feature updates only occur with a new stable release I believe.

        • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          8 days ago

          I also saw that recently. I’d like to highlight this bit from the news:

          This update contains behavior changes, all of which stems from the CVE fixes themselves, not exclusive to the version bump.

          So it looks like the package is still mostly kept stable despite the exception made.

      • furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        it is rare but some feature updates do get to stable, most software that is important to up to date with security fixes have the concept of an LTS or somethinf akin to it, firefox has ESR for example, basically it is a version where the devs will continously backport security fixes to it but not the features