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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Latest release of Alacritty not installed (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm running Debian 10 and I saw that there was a new release of Alacritty, so I checked the version I was running which was 0.4.2 and went to apt update and it said everything was up to date? Am I somehow running a super stable Debian version?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Debian is a static release distribution. Whenever a stable release of Debian comes, it's package repositories are made frozen. This means you cannot get the latest version until the next stable release.

There's a work around of this, you could switch to the unstable or the testing repositories, which get latest package releases with minimum delay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Thanks!