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