Summary: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date

[Amos Shapira]

I tried to avoid this discussion but I'm a little surprised that nobody
mentioned Debian Testing.
I've used it as a desktop for a decade or so and it had a great combination
of very good stability (i.e. I can't recall it ever disappointed me) and
still relatively up to date.
But then again - it's been a while since I used it.
These days I use Ubuntu LTS for servers and Mac for laptop, and for a few
months around a year ago also Ubuntu LTS for a work laptop.

On 2 December 2015 at 06:35, Geoff Shang <geoff at quitelikely.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Omer Zak wrote:
>
> Yet another option is to use Debian Stable as the host operating system,
>> like I did so far, but compile and install my own kernel builds
>> according to the instructions in places such as:
>>
>> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-building-installing-a-custom-linux-kernel/
>>
>
> You can also use Debian Backports to get more recent kernel releases.
>
> deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib
> non-free
>
> Here's the most recent kernel in jessie-backports at time of writing:
>
> Package: linux-image-4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
> Source: linux
> Version: 4.2.6-1~bpo8+1
>
> HTH,
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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