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[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

However Debian does keep up to date with security patches

Only if you use the stable version. Debian has a security team that handles quickly uploading patched versions of Debian packages, but only for stable. Debian testing and unstable aren't handled by the security team and instead require the package maintainers to upload security updates (which can lag behind)

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