Examples are Debian testing, Ubuntu non-LTS, or any rolling release like Arch, Gentoo, or openSUSE Tumbleweed. ![]() The fixed-release model is generally not great for desktop users who desire new features, bug fixes, performance improvements, and new hardware support.Īs you apparently know, there are many ways to install a newer version of a given package, but the real solution to this problem is to switch to a distro which provides newer packages in general. Put another way, "the bugs you have today are the bugs you'll have tomorrow." This is what distros that market themselves as "stable" actually mean. ![]() The fixed-release model is good for servers and workstations because you know that you will never have any compatibility breaking updates. Ubuntu makes some exceptions for certain packages, like Firefox, but Debian generally does not. So, for example, when you update from Debian 9 to Debian 10, all of your packages will update, but then they won't update again until Debian 11. This means that, traditionally, they do not ever update packages (except security backports) until a new version of the OS is released. Debian and Ubuntu are both so-called fixed-release distros.
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