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Hi altogether,

as I´m a newcomer to Debian and coming from Lubuntu I searched for 
information as far as the release model is concerned.

I learned that there are three different releases: stable, testing, and 
unstable.

I know I´m not supposed to post any links here but for the sake of 
reference I´ll still do it this time (sorry).
I´m referring to the article  "Debian vs Ubuntu" on 
https://linuxconfig.org/debian-vs-ubuntu .

I quote:

"Debian's stable release is insanely stable. There are few distributions 
in the same league when it comes to rock solid reliability.

[...] There is a tradeoff, though. The software in Debian Stable is 
usually fairly outdated.
In fact, it's usually outdated when the distribution first ships. Now, 
that's not much of a problem for servers, but it's awful for desktops. "

Despite reading through the entire article I couldn´t really understand 
why the author refers to Debian stable as being "awful" for desktops.

So I have a question in order to be clear about the matter.

Is Debian stable safe to use - I mean in the sense that it gets security 
updates for the installed packages?

I don´t really care about updates which would introduce new features of 
programmes. All I´m concerned about is getting security updates so that 
I can use Debian stable as my daily driver.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Many greetings
Rosika

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Debian stable - updates Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-25 14:30 +0200
  Re: Debian stable - updates "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2021-06-25 14:40 +0200
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        Re: Debian stable - updates Francesco Florian <francesco.florian@gmx.com> - 2021-06-25 21:20 +0200
          Re: Debian stable - updates Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 13:00 +0200
            Re: Debian stable - updates Francesco Florian <francesco.florian@gmx.com> - 2021-06-27 09:50 +0200
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      Re: Debian stable - updates Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 13:30 +0200
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          Re: Debian stable - updates Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 16:20 +0200
            Re: Debian stable - updates John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-06-26 16:50 +0200
          Re: Debian stable - updates Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-06-27 10:10 +0200
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            Re: Debian stable - updates John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-06-27 15:10 +0200
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    Re: Debian stable - updates Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-25 15:20 +0200
      Re: Debian stable - updates "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-06-25 23:20 +0200
    Re: Debian stable - updates Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 13:20 +0200
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