On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:18:09PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I would strongly suggest NOT using anything based on Debian unstable > in these circumstances. Unstable is meant for developers. Sure, it's > totally up-to-date when it's made available, but here's the problem: > if they don't follow the Debian unstable repositories, they're not > getting the updates they should. If they DO follow the Debian > unstable repositories, doing updates is like drinking from a fire hose > - the package thrash is huge. A few years back I installed a > "lightweight" distro made on this model: it installed easily, using > about 1G on a 2G partition. It ran well. Two months later I booted > the machine and casually typed 'apt-get dist-upgrade' ... and the > process filled the entire hard drive with packages and crashed the > machine, without ever getting to actually doing the upgrade.
I have seen distributions (like mint) that are debian testing based. I have never seen any based on unstable, so not sure which ones those would be. -- Len SOrensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
