The reason that Debian Stable is so reliable is because software is extensively tested and bug-fixed before being included. This means that the most recent version of software is often not available in the Stable repositories. But it doesn't mean that the software is too old to be useful!
Before attempting to install the newest version of some software from somewhere other than the Debian Stable repositories, here are some things to keep in mind:
- Debian backports security fixes and new features, judging software by comparing the version number of the Debian package to the upstream version number does not take this into account. - The latest version of the software you're trying to use might also have new bugs. - Installing software from places other than official Debian repositories are not covered by Debian' Security team.
Based debianposter For some people their os not breaking means they have to do something productice instead and they just cant stand the idea.
Elijah Scott
Okay but what about when some platform or application starts depending on a version that hasn't been incorporated yet forcing you to do an ugly manual update? I love Debian and Linux but don't pretend like the repo system is perfect
Parker King
I've got Debian Stable on my desktop (2012 MacMini), it's a great workhorse distro, only, it just doesn't excite or interest me, so I'm always itching to distro hop. Playing with Gentoo on my antique laptop, it's a lot of fun.
I've ran testing for a decade and you can't stop me
Mason Collins
libing on the edg
Jordan Turner
>Systemd >Stable
Pick one.
Adam Gray
>hurr durr debian is stable Yet something as simple as installing different versions for the same package leads to apt dependency hell. Plus, Debian got Poettering'd because it was the shiny and new thing.
Install Gentoo.
Michael Thomas
>something as simple as installing different versions for the same package There's nothing simple about that, and you should almost never need to do it, but chroots and debootstrap can surely provide such functionality.
Austin Miller
>There's nothing simple about that On Debian. >you should almost never need to do it Maybe you want to have a stable system and only a few bleeding edge packages? >chroots and debootstrap Why would I want to bother myself with that nonsense?
