On Vi, 25 iun 21, 15:02:51, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Christian wrote: > > Hi altogether, > > [...] > > > I quote: > > > [...] 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 usually fairly outdated.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 In fact, it's usually outdated when the distribution first ships.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. " > > He is of course free to have this opinion :-) Indeed, Debian stable must be "awful" for people suffering of "versionitis" ;) (no offence intended, I ran unstable myself on my main system for many years) > Some people like that, even on their desktops ;-) > > If you need the-latest-and-greatest of "this specific package" there > are usually ways around. > > I, for example, have a very reduced set of packages I self-compile. I > know I've to deal with the fall-out, and I know how to. But I couldn't > possibly do that for the 2000+ packages installed in my system. I'm > infinitely thankful to the maintainers doing that job, and for them to > not make funny experiments. For people new to Debian the backports repository is probably an easier start ;) https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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