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Debian bookworm live images now reproducible

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764 points bertman | 3 comments | 26 Mar 25 17:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.003s | source
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jcmfernandes ◴[26 Mar 25 19:14 UTC] No.43485833[source]▶
Insane effort. This sounded like a pipe dream just a couple of years ago. Congrats to everyone involved, especially to those who drove the effort.
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Joel_Mckay ◴[26 Mar 25 21:39 UTC] No.43487674[source]▶
The Debian group is admirable, and have positively changed the standards for OS design several times. Reminds me I should donate to their coffee fund around tax time =3
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alfiedotwtf ◴[27 Mar 25 02:45 UTC] No.43489910[source]▶
Exactly!

I’ve said it many times and I’ll repeat it here - Debian will be one of the few Linux distros we have right now, that will still exist 100 years from now.

Yea, it’s not as modern in terms of versioning and risk compared to the likes of Arch, but that’s also a feature!

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walrus01 ◴[27 Mar 25 05:39 UTC] No.43490648{3}[source]▶
It's quite easy to run Debian unstable (sid) if you want a more risky approach to having the newest of every package.
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1. cess11 ◴[27 Mar 25 07:16 UTC] No.43491143{4}[source]▶
Commonly these days you can also add specific repos for the things you want to be more on the edge. Then there are some tools one might install manually, at the moment I remember doing it with fzf.
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2. sgarland ◴[27 Mar 25 12:51 UTC] No.43493068[source]▶
Yep, I do this for a few tools. Though apt-key deprecation still hasn’t been universally accepted, so that’s always a minor annoyance to deal with.
3. presbyterian ◴[27 Mar 25 17:39 UTC] No.43495937[source]▶
Flatpak is also a great option for apps you might want to be more up-to-date than Debian provides in their package manager.