| From: Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Long release cycles are a real mixed blessing ... <sigh> Thanks for your note on debian 12 / bookworm. I'm personally interested in debian as a replacement for CentOS. (GTALUG is going to have a speaker from Rocky Linux in the next few months.) I'm not enculturated in the debian world, but my impression is: - debian stable is about the same as RHEL. Very stable, very old. Suitable for those who value stability. - debian testing is pretty reliable. Perfectly fine on ones desktop. - debian unstable is more of an adventure Ideologically, isn't FF ESR a match for debian stable? If you want firefox, isn't that an indication that you are a candidate for "testing". I don't like snaps / flatpacks much. For reasons that we don't need to go over. But your situation might be a great use: you want a stable OS but need very select exceptions. ================== We (GTALUG) run a debian stretch server that has fallen out of support. It falls on me (among others) to kick it forward. I was under the impression that the automated updating process is more recent then that. Is there a royal road to bookworm from stretch? My guess is that it gets complicated by out-of-distro things that we have installed.