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bluedino | karma 19194 | avg karma 2.78 · 2013-11-08 15:47:45

Unstable is pretty dang stable.

Supermighty | karma 3110 | avg karma 7.42 · 2013-11-08 15:54:14+00:00

Halfway between Stable releases I switch to Testing. It helps keep my software versions fresh with upstream releases.

jebblue | karma 1402 | avg karma 1.11 · 2013-11-08 17:40:12+00:00

If I understand it right, Unstable doesn't get security fixes:

http://www.debian.org/security/faq#unstable

And Testing doesn't get fixes for contrib and non-free:

http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing

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Thrymr | karma 2508 | avg karma 3.61 · 2013-11-09 00:24:05+00:00

It means that unstable isn't specifically tested for security, but security fixes will go to unstable first, before they propagate to testing.

jebblue | karma 1402 | avg karma 1.11 · 2013-11-10 16:41:43+00:00

Thanks for the clarification but reading the FAQ again for both Unstable and Testing in the context of your comment I'm still struggling to compare it to how Ubuntu gets security fixes for example.

I checked the security site listed in the Testing area in the Debian FAQ and don't see the recent SSH fix or the recent Linux kernel fix.

http://www.debian.org/security/

I do see them on the Ubuntu site:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/

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