Greetings Christian, > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2021 at 10:00 AM > From: "Christian Britz" <cbr...@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.
