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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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How is testing? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by tastysnacks@programming.dev to c/debian@lemmy.ml

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I usually switch to testing about 1 year after the release of stable. We're about the 9 month mark and I'm getting anxious. Any major issues running testing? This is for my main desktop.

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[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I've been running testing for quite some time. Runs well. Sometimes some smaller hiccups during the freezes. They don't promise you'll get security patches on time (with anything but stable). Otherwise nice rolling distro. I'm occasionally mixing in packages from unstable.