Hi all. I am a long time Linux user (since before 2000) and an xubuntu user since somewhere in the early 2000s.
However I'm finding various aspects of [x]ubuntu are becoming steadily more annoying so I'm looking for other distributions and Debian would seem to be an obvious way to go. I already run Debian on two Beaglebone Black single board computers and I also run several Raspberry Pis with the default Rasbian[ish] OS. I do most things on all my systems from the command line so I suspect that I really won't see much difference if/when I move to Debian. However I do have a couple of questions:- 1 - Is keeping a Debian system up to date just like Ubuntu, i.e. one just needs to run 'apt update;apt upgrade' at regular intervals? ... and of course autoremove and clean as required. 2 - Can I easily make a 'server' type installation without a GUI? This is for a backup system in my garage which is (usually) headless. Even better can I do the installation via ssh? 3 - Piece of string type question - what versions to install? On the backup system stable is obvious. The other two systems are my desktop which is also used as my mail server (running postfix) and my laptop. I think I'll go for testing on the laptop but I'm not sure whether stable or testing would be best for the desktop. I tended to keep my desktop running Ubuntu LTS releases, would I get about the same 'feel' with Debian stable? -- Chris Green
