The past week I’ve had a terrible feeling of FOMO. (That’s “Fear of Missing Out,” for those not up on the lingo.)<\/p>\n
Debian 13 is releasing on, IIRC, on August 9th. Two weeks away!<\/p>\n
And there is a nagging Gollum voice inside me screaming, “We needs it! We needs the Precious!”<\/p>\n
Except I don’t<\/i>. I’m a Linux Mint Debian Edition user. LinuxMint, built on top of Debian, currently on LMDE6. In a few months — November at the latest, three months after the release of Debian 13 (which was the time between Debian 12 and LMDE6) — LMDE7 will drop, and the Debian base underneath with go from 12 to 13.<\/p>\n
I’m not missing anything. I’m already using backports on several packages, so it’s not about having the latest software.<\/p>\n
It’s the shiny and the new. It’s a new number that’s bigger than the old number.<\/p>\n
But that Gollum FOMO voice doesn’t care. That Gollum FOMO voice will scream and gnash its teeth and smash things against rocks.<\/p>\n
I *may* set up Debian 13 in a virtual machine. And I know me. The virtual machine won’t get used. But it will shut up the Gollum voice.<\/p>\n
Patience. Patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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