Old but not necessarily out of date. The system is at a stable state. It’s working and we don’t want to make changes that can compromise stability. New features and other big code changes comes with increased risk of something breaking. Debian Stable means running code that have been tested and used a lot.
Security fixes and critical bugs get back ported if feasible, or a package might get updated to a newer version.
I was just to clarify that you’re not sitting with software full of security issues because of older versions of packages. And then some bonus info on what “stable” means in Debian :-)
I love Debian, its IMO the best distro even though atm I dont use it. Its the most stable and by far the distro that just works the most.
Sure its the most stable, but the packages are usually out of date
Old but not necessarily out of date. The system is at a stable state. It’s working and we don’t want to make changes that can compromise stability. New features and other big code changes comes with increased risk of something breaking. Debian Stable means running code that have been tested and used a lot.
Security fixes and critical bugs get back ported if feasible, or a package might get updated to a newer version.
I agree with you. I didn’t say Debian was bad. There are people who want the stability of Debian and that’s not a bad thing
I was just to clarify that you’re not sitting with software full of security issues because of older versions of packages. And then some bonus info on what “stable” means in Debian :-)
Tbh sometimes having the most up to date packages isnt very important
Yes, there are different distros for people with different wants. That’s the beauty of Linux.