The fact that the vast majority of these bugfixes and CVEs are minor is a testament to the continuing stability and quality of Debian and its ecosystem. I've run Debian on several machines for years and have upgraded confidently without a hitch. A big thank you to the maintainers and developers for making this possible.
Please note: Starting with Debian 7, the minor number is not part of the Debian release number, and numbers with a minor component like 8.7 or 9.4 now indicate a <i>point</i> release. Basically, only security updates and major bug fixes, with new updated installation media images. This, 9.4, is <i>not</i> a new major release of Debian.
Debian for server, definitely.<p>Ubuntu for desktop, which is similar to Debian.<p>Openwrt for devices that has limited RAM.<p>FreeRTOS for MCUs with real-time needs.<p>That covers the universe for me, enjoy them all.
Can someone explain this to me? I've had an issue with Postgres on Debian stable because Postgres had to address a CVE which changed its dump format in a backwards-incompatible way. This meant that my local Debian on my laptop couldn't load a dump I created on a patched Ubuntu server. Postgres 9.6.8 is the one that fixes this CVE in the 9.6 series.<p>This says the stable package is still vulnerable:<p><a href="https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1058" rel="nofollow">https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1058</a><p>But Postgres doesn't show up here:<p><a href="https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/stable" rel="nofollow">https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/s...</a><p>The 9.6.8 version indeed isn't on stable yet. So is the latter link just buggy? Or is Postgres getting filtered out?<p>Edit: Never mind, after messing with the filter (guess there's no Debian Security Advisory for this CVE), I was able to get Postgres in the second link:<p><a href="https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/stable?filter=1&filter=unassigned_urgency&filter=nodsa" rel="nofollow">https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/s...</a>
How is debian nowdays for setting up things like containers?
I've tried lxc in the past few years ago and got it working but it was not a pleasant experience, templates were broken.<p>I would love them to gain back more server marketshare.
Depending on your use case, Debian Stable can be a great thing. If it worked great on a given computer (i.e. everything works), and I was just writing or using programs that were themselves fairly "stable," then it will work.<p>If you're a developer and don't mind older packages, or if you install and manage your dev tools from outside the distribution, it can also work for you. This is a lot of people.<p>But if you rely on your distribution to provide reasonably up-to-date packages (and for better or worse, that's me right now), then Debian Stable might not be the right choice. When I do development in Linux, I tend to be more comfortable in Fedora, which is much more aggressive when it comes to updating packages during the life of a release. I'm not crazy about major upgrades every 6 months, though you can do it once a year if you wish.<p>For better or worse, I think that Ubuntu + PPAs is the path of least resistance -- if you trust the maintainers of your PPAs, that is.
Frankly, I do not understand the fawning over Debian. It became the same kind of "try to be everything and do nothing well" distribution Slackware was.<p>Up until 8 it was still good for servers but 8 brought systemd, which <i>maybe</i> has a place on a Desktop, but is definitely not anything useful for servers. Ok, so lets pretend it is a desktop. Oh wait, it is a desktop that does not contain the lastest video drivers? It is a desktop that does not contain seamless switch between free nvidia and proprietary nvidia?
I'm a bit surprised that the Docker image is not released as part of the same release process.<p>They seem to be released by a separate project / org called "debuerreotype"[1].<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype</a>
Debian servers and mirrors still showing 9.3 (UK, 17:45 Saturday 10th March)<p>I just downloaded v9.3 DVD1/2 to make an offline installation.<p>Anyone know where the 9.4 upgrade iso is?
Obligatory reference to the list of platforms Debian has been ported to and the "blends" it can be customized to.
<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/index.en.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.debian.org/ports/index.en.html</a>
<a href="https://www.debian.org/blends/" rel="nofollow">https://www.debian.org/blends/</a><p>BTW, many moons ago I used Red Hat on Alphas, so I know it's not the only one. Still it's impressive.