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Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

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Hey Tony,

I had lots of problems with Stretch when it was in testing. A lot of
packages (KDE, X drivers, and the kernel come immediately to mind)
have manageable but irritating upstream regressions that didn't get
patched or backported in time for the release.

I was very surprised when they released Stretch as I didn't find
anything 'stable' about the packages that I was using. Therefore, I've
stayed on the testing branch where many of the problems are slowly
getting fixed.

In terms of stability, I think Debian is one of the better distros
you'll get. Other distros achieve greater stability but suffer from
MacOS syndrome: the distro works only if you stick to the limited set
of features explicitly designed into the distro. There are
fixed-release-cycle distros like Ubuntu that seem to be perpetually
broken - you report a bug in a release and get told it'll be fixed in
the next release six months from now. Assuming that it's fixed in the
next release, you have a whole new set of bugs to deal with, and the
cycle continues.

In my 13 years of Linux experience, I keep coming back to Debian. It's
not perfect, but it hasn't ruined my life... yet.

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Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Borden Rhodes <jrvp@bordenrhodes.com> - 2017-08-21 22:30 +0200
  Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-21 22:50 +0200
  Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch tony mollica <tjm3@threedogs.net> - 2017-08-22 01:00 +0200
    Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch tony mollica <tjm3@threedogs.net> - 2017-09-06 18:20 +0200
      Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-09-06 18:40 +0200
        Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-09-06 20:40 +0200
          Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-06 22:00 +0200
            Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-09-11 23:30 +0200
              Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-12 09:40 +0200
                Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-09-13 16:50 +0200
              Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 10:30 +0200
                Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-09-15 17:40 +0200
                Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 20:10 +0200
      Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-09-06 21:00 +0200
      Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-09-07 01:00 +0200
        Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-09-07 14:20 +0200
          Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch tony mollica <tjm3@threedogs.net> - 2017-09-07 17:20 +0200
          Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-09-08 01:00 +0200
  Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-22 03:10 +0200
    Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> - 2017-09-07 01:30 +0200

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