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Operating Systems Linux Debian Debian Testing (Is it Stable) Post 302768803 by bakunin on Saturday 9th of February 2013 05:54:50 PM

02-09-2013

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Debian is probably the distribution with the most conservative attitude of all when it comes to version acceptance. Use a "Debian Stable" if you want something which will still be running in the next ice-age. "Debian Testing" and "Debian Unstable" are by no means insecure or crash-prone, just not that rigorously tested as "Stable".

For your laptop the advatages of having newer software, which is probably farther developed by far outweighs the disadvantage of having statistically one crash more every 20 years. As long as you don't control atomic power plants or similarily sensitive things with this system you probably will come to like it. I have a "Debian Unstable" somewhere on my notebook and never had any problems with it, I mainly use Fedora Core, but that is more because of personal taste than because of any shortcoming of Debian.

I hope this helps.

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debian-distro-info

DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)					      General Commands Manual					     DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)

NAME

       debian-distro-info - provides information about Debian's distributions

SYNOPSIS

       debian-distro-info [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS

       --date=DATE
	      date for calculating the version (default: today)

       -h, --help
	      display help message and exit

       --alias=DIST
	      print  the  alias  (stable, testing, unstable) relative to the distribution codename passed as an argument.  Only distribution code-
	      names composed of lower case ASCII letters are accepted, and if the distribution does not qualify as stable,  testing  or  unstable,
	      then the same codename passed as argument is returned.

       -a, --all
	      list all known versions

       -d, --devel
	      latest development version

       -o, --old
	      latest old (stable) version

       -s, --stable
	      latest stable version

       --supported
	      list of all supported stable versions

       -t, --testing
	      latest testing version

       --unsupported
	      list of all unsupported stable versions

       -c, --codename
	      print the codename (default)

       -r, --release
	      print the release version

       -f, --fullname
	      print the full name

SEE ALSO

       distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)

AUTHOR

       The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.

distro-info							   January 2011 					     DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)