Debian stable - updates
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usually fairly outdated.
In fact, it's usually outdated when the distribution first ships.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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