No, I have been using Debian since Debian 9 (Stretch, release date was June 17, 2017)Coming back to the topic, is kernel panic problems like this after an update is common in Debian Stable?
In the last 7 years I have only had 3 serious problems with Debian.
1. The current problem with the new kernel and the Nvidia drivers. Which has been solved as of today. Thus it required a week.
2. Then a serious error in December 2023 with the ext4 file system in one of the previous kernels which could lead to data loss under certain circumstances. This problem could be fixed within a week.
Read here for more informations:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1057843
3. And several security holes in the Firefox browser in November 2022, which could not be updated to a newer ESR version, because the new version required a new version of the rust compiler. During this time, people surfed with an unprotected browser. Unfortunately, it took several weeks until the problem was resolved. Too long for my taste. However, this should no longer happen in the future, as the Firefox browser has now received its own Rust compiler package and Chromium is updated more frequently, so that if the worst comes to the worst, you have now an alternative browser with Chromium available. Unfortunately, when the problem with Firefox existed, Chromium was hopelessly out of date.
These were the 3 serious problems with Debian in the last 7 years.
Then there are a few minor issues, such as versions of packages skipping an entire Debian major release before there is a new version of the package in the repository. And unfortunately it also takes too long for new software to be added to the package repository.
But compared to Ubuntu and Linux Mint, security holes are at least still fixed after the distribution is released. For Ubuntu and Linux Mint this only applies to their main repository, but often not to the others.
Statistics: Posted by Borg — 2024-02-16 23:57