dan

dan, 1 year ago

Testing is the middle ground. Tested for a bit by unstable peeps but thats it.

IIRC packages have to be in unstable with no major bugs for 10 days before migrating to testing. It’s a good middle ground IMO.

Of course, you could always run unstable and be the one to report the bugs :)

dan, 1 year ago

I used to run Debian testing on my servers. These days I don’t have much free time to mess with them, so they’re all running the stable release with unattended-upgrades.

However, mind that it’s not supported and they do not pay attention to security fixes.

To be clear, it can still get security updates, but it’s the package maintainer’s responsibility to upload them. Some maintainers are very responsive while others take a while. On the other hand, Debian stable has a security team that quickly uploads patches to all officially supported packages (just the “main” repo, not contrib, non-free, or non-free-firmware).

dan, 1 year ago

How different is it from regular Debian? Like if I’m very experienced with Debian, does that equate to being able to easily use Mint Debian Edition too?

dan, 1 year ago

But that’s one of the benefits of open source. Post your code and find someone else to finish it :D

dan, 1 year ago

Can’t they just automatically collect this data if the user gives permission?

dan, 1 year ago

I’ve got a good fast fiber internet connection at home so I just host a Plex server and use Plexamp, which is a great app.

A lot of my music was ripped by me though, not downloaded, so my library isn’t as large as some other people’s.