On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:45:05 +0100 Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
> My main complaint is snap, which I have removed but I suspect it's > going to become steadily more difficult to run Ubuntu without snap. snapd and flatpak are available as Debian packages, but are entirely optional. I prefer to avoid them also; I'd rather compile locally. > > My only need for 'latest' versions tends to be for a very few things > where keeping different systems in step is important. As long as your various systems are more or less in sync (see below) you don't have to have the latest and greatest, just compatible versions. > Some are in PPAs (e.g. syncthing) so I get the same version on all my > systems that way. I run syncthing from their repos. I think. I have two different versions on my three machines that are running right now, 1.19.2~ds1-1+b4 and 1.27.2~ds4-1. I've had no complaints so it appears there is some robustness there. I shall look into why that difference exists. > The other one I can think of at the moment is GnuCash which I > run on two systems with the same database so it has to be at the same > version on both. My three machines agree on version 1:4.13-1, all from Debian repos. 1:5.8-1+b1 is the current version for testing. So you should be good there. > > So I think it may well be that Debian stable will do all I need, with, > maybe some backports (I'll have to look into how they work). https://backports.debian.org -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
