On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:03:59PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| 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.
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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.
You can upgrade one release at a time. So upgrade to buster, then bullseye, then bookworm. -- Len Sorensen