▲ 106 ▼ What is your preferred daily driver distribution? (lemm.ee) submitted 2 years ago by bbsm3678@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml 177 comments fedilink hide all child comments Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?
[–] transistor@lemdro.id 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I've been actually trying Debian Testing for past few weeks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mfn@mfn.pub 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) Debian not recommends testing for everyday using. You definetely have to look at the site. Afaik it is basically a bad version of unstable that gets slow updates and it is only for testing purposes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] danielton@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, this is correct. The way Testing works, it is very possible (indeed, likely) that you could be stuck with a security vulnerability for weeks. You should use either stable or unstable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] transistor@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Can unstable be used as a daily driver? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] danielton@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Yes, as long as you pay attention to what packages are being added and removed when you perform an update. Once in a great while, there have been instances of buggy packages mass-removing other packages due to a bug. That said, Debian-based distros like Ubuntu usually base their stable releases on unstable. Unstable doesn't refer to software stability. Rather, it refers to the idea that the system-level packages could change throughout the development cycle. Security updates come to unstable through normal package updates, which testing doesn't get until everything makes it through a probationary period with no "serious" bugs filed and no dependency issues. And if any package that the package needing the security patch depends on also has a serious bug filed, the process could take even longer. permalink fedilink source parent [–] transistor@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago Packages from debian unstable trickle down to testing in 8-10 days usually if all the other criteria are met. But I have also heard that important security updates go straight from unstable to stable and then come to testing at a later time. When is that later date I have no idea. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mfn@mfn.pub 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) Debian not recommends testing for everyday using. You definetely have to look at the site. Afaik it is basically a bad version of unstable that gets slow updates and it is only for testing purposes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] danielton@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, this is correct. The way Testing works, it is very possible (indeed, likely) that you could be stuck with a security vulnerability for weeks. You should use either stable or unstable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] transistor@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Can unstable be used as a daily driver? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] danielton@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Yes, as long as you pay attention to what packages are being added and removed when you perform an update. Once in a great while, there have been instances of buggy packages mass-removing other packages due to a bug. That said, Debian-based distros like Ubuntu usually base their stable releases on unstable. Unstable doesn't refer to software stability. Rather, it refers to the idea that the system-level packages could change throughout the development cycle. Security updates come to unstable through normal package updates, which testing doesn't get until everything makes it through a probationary period with no "serious" bugs filed and no dependency issues. And if any package that the package needing the security patch depends on also has a serious bug filed, the process could take even longer. permalink fedilink source parent [–] transistor@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago Packages from debian unstable trickle down to testing in 8-10 days usually if all the other criteria are met. But I have also heard that important security updates go straight from unstable to stable and then come to testing at a later time. When is that later date I have no idea. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] danielton@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, this is correct. The way Testing works, it is very possible (indeed, likely) that you could be stuck with a security vulnerability for weeks. You should use either stable or unstable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] transistor@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Can unstable be used as a daily driver? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] danielton@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Yes, as long as you pay attention to what packages are being added and removed when you perform an update. Once in a great while, there have been instances of buggy packages mass-removing other packages due to a bug. That said, Debian-based distros like Ubuntu usually base their stable releases on unstable. Unstable doesn't refer to software stability. Rather, it refers to the idea that the system-level packages could change throughout the development cycle. Security updates come to unstable through normal package updates, which testing doesn't get until everything makes it through a probationary period with no "serious" bugs filed and no dependency issues. And if any package that the package needing the security patch depends on also has a serious bug filed, the process could take even longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] transistor@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Can unstable be used as a daily driver? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] danielton@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Yes, as long as you pay attention to what packages are being added and removed when you perform an update. Once in a great while, there have been instances of buggy packages mass-removing other packages due to a bug. That said, Debian-based distros like Ubuntu usually base their stable releases on unstable. Unstable doesn't refer to software stability. Rather, it refers to the idea that the system-level packages could change throughout the development cycle. Security updates come to unstable through normal package updates, which testing doesn't get until everything makes it through a probationary period with no "serious" bugs filed and no dependency issues. And if any package that the package needing the security patch depends on also has a serious bug filed, the process could take even longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] danielton@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Yes, as long as you pay attention to what packages are being added and removed when you perform an update. Once in a great while, there have been instances of buggy packages mass-removing other packages due to a bug. That said, Debian-based distros like Ubuntu usually base their stable releases on unstable. Unstable doesn't refer to software stability. Rather, it refers to the idea that the system-level packages could change throughout the development cycle. Security updates come to unstable through normal package updates, which testing doesn't get until everything makes it through a probationary period with no "serious" bugs filed and no dependency issues. And if any package that the package needing the security patch depends on also has a serious bug filed, the process could take even longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] transistor@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago Packages from debian unstable trickle down to testing in 8-10 days usually if all the other criteria are met. But I have also heard that important security updates go straight from unstable to stable and then come to testing at a later time. When is that later date I have no idea. permalink fedilink source parent