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by dagw 1983 days ago
As someone who doesn't use Debian as my only (or even main) OS, but does manage a few Debian servers, I completely disagree on memorable. I can never remember the order of code names and whenever I read something like "stretch or later" I always have to Google to find out if the servers I have qualify or not.

Other than that, I have zero complaints about Debian
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magicalhippo 1982 days ago
> whenever I read something like "stretch or later" I always have to Google to find out if the servers I have qualify or not

This is exactly my problem as well.

Oh well, luxury problem in the grand scheme of things.

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bayindirh 1982 days ago
> I can never remember the order of code names...

Me neither, don't worry about it :)

> I read something like "stretch or later"...

Well, they're really irresponsible if they're writing like that. All of the places I've seen, downloaded debs either write Debian 9+ or Debian 9+ (Stretch and later) or any similar fashion.

I didn't encounter any Debian $codename only compatibility notes. I also don't write $codename only readme files, etc.

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magicalhippo 1982 days ago
> All of the places I've seen, downloaded debs either write Debian 9+ or Debian 9+

Just a couple of recent examples I stumbled upon:

https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-r2s/#kernels-archive-all

https://louwrentius.com/configuring-scst-iscsi-target-on-deb...

Sure a bit of searching lets me figure out what's what but...

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