A Rolling Release Debian? Install The 'Unstable' Branch!

Debian has three different branches: (1) stable, (2) testing and (3) unstable. The unstable branch "Sid" is a rolling release distribution similar to something like Arch Linux. You get the latest and greatest packages, unlike the standard "stable" edition of Debian, which can have very old packages.

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[blindelectron]

I love that Debian recognizes people who are visually impaired like that, that is amazing to me, and although I don’t use a braille display on a regular basis, I do know there’s an option in there for a screen reader as well, I am blind and I am a Gnu/Linux user and this is something very good for me

[kantraa]

You actually inspired me to install pure Debian for the first time. Thanks DT.

[dougtilaran]

Derek knows, in his heart, that Debian rules

[gokulrajr]

"I love unstable distributions. Keeps you on your toes." 😆

[gabrielecaniglia]

Another option would be a stable release with backports repos. This way you'll have the option to install a newer version of most packages, when needed, or even apt-pin the backports to assign them a higher priority upon dpkg selection. Wonderful video and channel, love it! :-)

[themroc]

I actually prefer testing. It is ¨rolling release¨ too, it's software is fresh pretty much on par with a non-LTS Ubuntu, and I find it to be still impeccably reliable. The only thing is the non-security updates "freeze" for a few weeks every 2 years before a new stable release.

[vitorpinheiroferreira]

I love Debian. It.s a distro that respect user freedon. Debian makes me understand free software philosophy. Thank godness for Debian!

[themroc]

The prefered, Debian way is not to create a root user, and when you do that your user is in the sudo group.

[thatonewolfie]

Debian actually does supply weekly testing isos. They even have ones with the non free firmwares.

[thequietone]

Just don't make root account while installation and there won't be any problem with using sudo command

[mikechappell]

If you have to edit sudoers the preferred method is to use visudo. It checks sudoers for errors so you don't corrupt it.

[Chris-ipuv]

It's nice to see you covering Debian. Please do more if possible. BTW, I love the snarky comments after some of your videos. It's a nice touch and you are doing it in moderation.

[fletcherriverwood]

Thank you DT. Last night I downloaded the mini.iso and trying to install it by using the default install option and I can not finish the process, glad that I found your video, this is really helpful

[_yuri]

dt i shaved my head too now i look like you

[FrDismasSayreOP]

After seeing your shirt, I knew you would be willing to call this unstable install My Sacrifice, and go in with Arms Wide Open. As we were watching, Stand Here With Me, as much Time as it takes. Are we finished? Is This the End? Beautiful.

[glowiak]

1:06 Devuan provides isos for all it's branches (except ceres). For example daily ISO of testing branch can be found in 'chimaera' directory on mirrors

[SouProds]

Thanks for the tutorial! This was very helpful and easy to follow.

[McDuffington]

You can install stable, regular. Then change sources.list, replace Buster with Testing and do apt update and ugprade, apt dist-upgrade

[donaldwilliams]

Thanks for this. I have not done a SID install in SOOO long. haha

[rafa]

Never used SID but since few months I use Stable and I really like it, came after Ubuntu and Windows. I like that it is stable and there are basically no updates :)