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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Siduction. It is rolling release though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not a huge fan of rolling releases but Ubuntu/Debian are too far behind, Fedora is a very nice middle ground.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

My best middle ground is openSUSE tumbleweed. It is a rolling release but very reliable. Its not bleeding edge. It has snapshots which function like very small stable releases every few days insteqd of every package being updated individually. Every such snapshot has automatic testing. So all in all, very stable for a rolling release.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just checked their website and it seems like they're using debian sid packages. What's the difference between using siduction and plain debian sid, besides having a preconfigured desktop?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I never used siduction, im juat aware of its existence. I think they add some stability(=reliability) on top of sid and also keep updating packages during sid's freezes. Dont quote me on this.