Earlier this month, I wrote about the different flavours of Debian, and noted that you could take (and stay with) Debian \’testing\’ or even \’unstable\’ to have something like a rolling release.
And that\’s exactly what Google is doing since a while, and like their article about it shows they understand Debian pretty well. They know about the problems with mixing stuff from \’testing\’ and \’unstable\’ (which is btw what Ubuntu is doing as well), they know about the Debian security team *not* updating \’testing\’, and that not every package from upstream which ends up in \’unstable\’ has CVE reports. And they also supply packages themselves, which is how it should be.
So in that regard, Google was thinking like me – you don\’t have to take Arch or Suse\’s \’Tumbleweed\’ if you want rolling releases, and going back from using Ubuntu to its own parent can only be a good thing. Good to see professionals working and thinking like oneself 🙂
Found via the Debian micronews blog where Debian developer Laura Arjona Reina posted it.
As always, thanks for reading.