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by _eht 2737 days ago
On the note of stability, it's interesting to see which Linux distributions ship with which versions. Debian Stretch for instance ships with 3.5.3-1 while Ubuntu 18.04 LTS runs 3.6.5-3.

I know some who would argue that Debian is generally the more stable server and Ubuntu more bleeding edge.
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praseodym 2737 days ago
Debian Stretch was released June 2017 and Ubuntu 18.04, well, in April 2018, so its not too surprising that they ship with different Python versions.

I do find it surprising that Linux distributions don’t always choose upstream LTS versions for their releases, it just feels like a big waste of effort to backport fixes across many versions.

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geezerjay 2737 days ago
> Debian Stretch was released June 2017

Actually, Debian Stretch was released in April 2015, and their general freeze was set at November 2016.

Debian spends about 4 years producing a stable release, which excels at stability at the expense of using software releases that are far from the bleeding edge.

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