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bluedino

Unstable is pretty dang stable.

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

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

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

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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