Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7)
On 26/01/2021 10:10, Tixy wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-01-26 at 09:31 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Lu, 25 ian 21, 18:12:18, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote
> [...]
>>>
>>> Hello Dan, I've been using Bullseye for several months, but thought I'd
>>> better stay with Buster as this m/c was bought for a naive friend. It
>>> now looks as if Bullseye is the better bet so I'll give it a go tomorrow.
>>
>> The freeze for bullseye has already started, so the usual warnings are
>> against using testing are relaxed.
>>
>> https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html
>>
>> There will still be many updates until the release, but generally only
>> minor and/or Debian only versions, to fix release critical bugs.
>
> But note that security fixes may be slow. I'm using Bullseye and the
> last security update to Firefox on Jan 8th took 9 days to migrate from
> unstable to testing. Thought I'd mention this, because Peter says the
> machine is being setup for a 'naive friend' so that would imply relying
> on getting security fixes promptly and without manual intervention.
>
> In my case, I saw the security announcement so installed Firefox
> manually from unstable, but unknown to me at the time, one of the
> updated dependences had a critical bug that broke several other
> programs in obscure ways.
>
Thanks to all. Bullseye up and running: alls well that ends well.
Peter HB
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