On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 02:48:01PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I am writing to propose the creation of a new Debian branch that > > offers a stable release every year, as opposed to the current 5-year > > cycle. This would be particularly beneficial for educational > > institutions, where a balance between stability and up-to-date > > software is crucial. > > As mentioned elsewhere, the current cycle is not 5-year long. > And I think it's going to be difficult to convince Debian as a whole. > But another path might be to look for institutions which currently use > Debian, and encourage cooperation between them, maybe to the point of > offering an alternative distribution that closely tracks Debian but > better aligned with the needs of educational institutions.
Well, there /is/ Debian Edu [1]. I didn't mention it since that was orthogonal to the OP's problem. But it could (ideally) be a meeting point for educational institutions. > AFAIK my department's IT uses Debian on all the end users's GNU/Linux > desktops. IIUC it's based on Debian sid which they freeze around late > spring, then test and tweak until it's deployed over the course of the > summer, after which only security fixes are installed during the rest of > the year (IIUC they self-build their own security-patched packages for > that). It's a non-trivial endeavor but it also gives them a lot > of flexibility. It might be difficult to share the fruits of such > efforts without losing too much of the benefits, but it's worth a try. Thanks for that encouraging account! Cheers [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/
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