Is it enough to have usb Debian live (for example XFCE) and use Debian Sid? I mean I don't have another one computer, if the main computer will be "broken".
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 11:44 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 09:44:02 (+0000), Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 22 Jul 2024 21:20 -0500, from deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk (David > Wright): > > > The machine I'm typing on is running bullseye and was installed with > > > linux-image-5.10.0-13-amd64. It's running linux-image-5.10.0-31-amd64 > > > now, so that's 22 different versions over 27 months, and a lot of work > > > put in by the Debian Kernel Team, thanks. I think Kroah-Hartman's > > > praise still applies. > > > > It is a lot of work. > > > > Note that the -13- and -31- respectively refers to the ABI version of > > the build, which isn't necessarily the same thing as an updated > > kernel. It's not that uncommon for kernel updates to not increase the > > ABI version tag, so in practice your system has probably seen many > > more than 22 kernels over that period of time. (Without having > > checked, I wouldn't be surprised if the real number of kernel updates > > is on the order of 2-3 times the number of ABI bumps.) > > Yes, I was only counting the versions that *stable users access, as > package upgrades. The corresponding number of versions, when you count > featuresets and flavours etc, that the developer/maintainer probably > sees, is far higher but not easily determined by us from APT's lists. > > But my point was just that I'm not running a kernel that dates from > either August 2021 (bullseye release) or April 2022 (this installation), > which was implied by "Years between releases means software will get > stale and accumulate bugs that will lead to vulnerable and exploitable > hosts on the network." > > Cheers, > David. > >
