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Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?
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I used to run Debian testing on my servers. These days I don't have much free time to mess with them, so they're all running the stable release with unattended-upgrades.
To be clear, it can still get security updates, but it's the package maintainer's responsibility to upload them. Some maintainers are very responsive while others take a while. On the other hand, Debian stable has a security team that quickly uploads patches to all officially supported packages (just the "main" repo, not contrib, non-free, or non-free-firmware).
Thanks for clarifying. Yeah I implied that but didn't explain all the nuances. I've been scolded before for advertising the use of Debian testing. I'm quite happy with it. But since I'm not running any cutting edge things on my server and Docker etc have become quite stable... I don't see any need to put testing on the server. I also use stable there and embrace the security fixes and stability / low maintenance. I however run testing/unstable on my laptop.