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Which Debian branch to use (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by ladyanita22 to c/linux

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Hi all,

I'm currently a happy Fedora user, but I'm attracted to the Debian world because of the sane choices Debian has mostly always taken. It's a phenomenal distro, with a lot of support (both internla and from 3rd parties), and that follows some of the principles I care about. It has a long support period, it's less opinionated than other distros, has a huge ecosystem and it's community-run. Also, it's an excellent distro for almost all use-cases: IoT, Server and Workstation.

I love Fedora, but it's not exactly an LTS release, so I have to jump ship to CentOS whenever I need something more stable. Not that I dislike that heavily, though, but I'd like to try the Debian world.

I am not opting for Ubuntu because the snapization of the distro, which is becoming more dependent on snaps as time passes. I like some stuff about PopOS, but some other stuff I don't. If I were to choose vanilla Debian, which one should I pick to be the most similar to Fedora?

Stable
Testing
Unstable (Sid)

I've read that Stable = CentOS, Testing = Fedora, Unstable = Rawhide/Arch. However, during the freeze period, neither Testing nor Unstable will actually behave like that at all. How long is that freeze period and how much of a big deal is it?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The freeze is normally close to 24 months,

No, it is not. You must be thinking of something else.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Release_statistics

[–] mo_ztt 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I swear the delays in the woody -> sarge development cycle, 20 years ago, made such an impact on the internet's collective memory that things like "Debian stable is old!" and "Freezes are something that you'll definitely be aware of, let alone experience any problems from!" are still part of the collection of stereotypes that get repeated as knowledge.

[–] ladyanita22 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, those delays were huge. Debian's longhorn. Whereas Fedora was pumping releases in a stable cadence, Debian was stuck in there. If it weren't for that, probably Ubuntu wouldn't bave existed.