edit: WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKING MEMELORD FOUND MY ADDRESS AND SENT ME THIGH HIGHS AND CAT EARS?

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    1·
    16 hours ago

    I know from experience its just not just a couple of months if we are talking Debian stable.

    Here is what chat gpt is saying, even though the versions is already outdated:

    Debian Stable lags behind Arch Linux by roughly 1–3 years on most core packages:

    Breakdown by category:

    Linux kernel~6–18 months behindRolling, latest~1 year

    GCC / LLVM / Clang~1–2 major versions behindLatest stable1–2 years

    Python / Node / Go1–3 versions behindLatest stable1–2 years

    GNOME / KDE / XFCE One major release behindCurrent1–1.5 years

    SystemdUsually current − 1Current6–12 months glibc / coreutilsOften within ~1 yearCurrent6–12 months

    Security patchesBackported rapidlyUpstream latest0 delay on fixes

    In practice:

    Debian 12 (Bookworm, mid-2023) ships kernel 6.1, GCC 12, GNOME 43.

    Arch (today) has kernel 6.11, GCC 14, GNOME 47.

    So Debian Stable is about 2 years behind Arch overall, though security backports mean it’s not “outdated” for production.

    • Qwel@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Yes, Debian stable and testing are two very different things. Testing is essentially a slower rolling release that only takes packages that have been tested in Debian unstable, which is a very fast rolling release. Similar thing with RHEL, Fedora is a quasi-rolling distro that takes packages after testing in Fedora rawhide.

      • 1984@lemmy.today
        2·
        16 hours ago

        Yeah. Maybe Debian testing is fine. Couple of months delay is not a huge deal, even though i really want the latest packages myself. When a new version of plasma or gnome is released, im right there waiting for it immediately… :)