Is Debian Sid Safe?
Contents the Debian Devs Caution Against Doing It at All, but There Are Actually Instances When It’s Perfectly Fine to Combine Releases. It Can Even Bail You...
The Debian devs caution against doing it at all, but there are actually instances when it’s perfectly fine to combine releases. It can even bail you out of bugs, like described above. Debian Testing and Sid often run very closely with one another, unless a release freeze is in progress.
Is Debian Sid really unstable?
Debian Unstable (also known as sid) is one of the 3 distributions that Debian provides (along with Stable and Testing). It’s not conceived as a product for end-users, instead it’s the place where contributors are uploading newer packages.
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Should I run Debian Sid?
If you’re planning to contribute to Debian, you’d be better off with sid, since all new changes have to work on a sid environment. That said, I have been using sid on my desktop for over a year without any crashes. To get the most updated packages but still have a usable system, you should use testing.
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