Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that’s a good thing)

Ars Technica has a review of Debian 10 which got released in July:

'The Debian project, the upstream mother of countless Linux
distributions, has released Debian 10, also known as "Buster." And
yes, that's a reference to the character from Toy Story. All Debian
releases are named after Toy Story characters.

Over the years, Debian has built a well-deserved reputation as a
rock-solid distro for those who don't want the latest and greatest and
instead prefer the stability that comes from sticking with what works.
Naturally, Debian gets security updates, bug fixes, and maintenance
releases like any distro, but don't expect major updates to
applications or desktop environments with this Linux flavor.

Right now, as with every release, Debian is pretty close to up to date
with what the rest of the Linux world is doing. But Buster will be
supported for five years, and Debian 11 won't arrive for at least two
years (Buster comes just 26 months after Debian 9, though it has been
five years since the big tweaks of Debian 8). So as time goes on,
Buster will look increasingly outdated.'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/debian-10-playing-catch-up-with-the-rest-of-the-linux-world-thats-a-good-thing/

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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