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Re: stability level of testing

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Greetings Christian,

> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2021 at 10:00 AM
> From: "Christian Britz" <cbritz@t-online.de>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: stability level of testing
>
> daggs wrote:
> > I'm thinking of migrating my main server to Debian, I need stability and recent version of small number of pkgs.
> > in addition I need to recompile with a out of tree patch.
> > I had Debian stable before but replaced it because upgrade broke the system and the versions used for the mentioned above set of pkgs were too old for what I need.
> > I know that Testing has more recent pkgs version but I don't know how stable is it.
>
> Don't do it for a server facing the Internet. Testing does not have
> timely security support by concept.
>
> Also by concept, it is of course not stable in the sense of Debian
> stable distribution, it is more like a rolling release distribution.
>
> On my desktop, I currently use the testing distribution, but I install
> Internet facing applications like browser and mail directly from the
> vendor, not from Debian's repository. For example, Firefox and Chromium
> often get security patches very late in Debian testing.
>
>

there will be 2 main facing the Internet connection, server's upgrade and the router vm.
the rest is internal

Dagg.

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stability level of testing daggs <daggs@gmx.com> - 2021-12-01 08:30 +0100
  Re: stability level of testing Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-12-01 09:10 +0100
    Re: stability level of testing daggs <daggs@gmx.com> - 2021-12-01 22:00 +0100
      Re: stability level of testing Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-12-01 23:00 +0100
        Re: stability level of testing Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-02 00:40 +0100
          Re: stability level of testing daggs <daggs@gmx.com> - 2021-12-02 09:30 +0100
            Re: stability level of testing Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-02 15:50 +0100
              Re: stability level of testing daggs <daggs@gmx.com> - 2021-12-02 18:50 +0100
        Re: stability level of testing daggs <daggs@gmx.com> - 2021-12-02 09:30 +0100
          Re: stability level of testing "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-12-02 21:10 +0100
            Re: stability level of testing daggs <daggs@gmx.com> - 2021-12-02 22:30 +0100
  Re: stability level of testing Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-02 00:40 +0100
    Re: stability level of testing daggs <daggs@gmx.com> - 2021-12-02 09:30 +0100
  Re: stability level of testing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-02 03:30 +0100
    Re: stability level of testing daggs <daggs@gmx.com> - 2021-12-02 10:00 +0100
      Re: stability level of testing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-03 06:10 +0100
        Re: stability level of testing daggs <daggs@gmx.com> - 2021-12-03 14:20 +0100
          Re: stability level of testing Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-04 00:50 +0100
          Re: stability level of testing "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-12-05 23:20 +0100
            Re: stability level of testing daggs <daggs@gmx.com> - 2021-12-06 09:10 +0100

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