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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by type0 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @07:52AM (#18541898)
About FreeBSD, I've heard that its' software is lagging behind many fast updating Linux distros but is extremely reliable, how does Debian Testing compare to something like TrueOS i.e FreeBSD-Current stuff?

P.S when I say lagging behind I don't mean the server things but rather on the developer side.

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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by hs86 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:04AM (#18542315)
The base OS and the installed 3rd party software (ports/packages) are on different release models.

The base is either stable/LTS (~5 years support) or rolling if you track -CURRENT.

For the 3rd party software it is either rolling or stable in short lived quarterly branches.

Most server side software is usually pretty up to date but some desktop-related tools can be outdated for a while. You might want to take a look at [0] and especially at the commit history of some fairly popular desktops like Gnome3 [1] or KDE5 [2]. They got updated recently but it took quite a while.

[0] https://www.freshports.org/

[1] https://www.freshports.org/x11/gnome3/

[2] https://www.freshports.org/x11/kde5/

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