I'm fairly certain there is one patch ...
... that a whole lot of Debian users are waiting for.
I wonder how long it'll be before it appears. Shall we start a pool?
I'll go with January 1st 2019 ...
Debian Linux has hit version 9.1. The new release rolls up 26 security fixes that have landed since June. This one, which landed last week, is worth plucking out of the noise, with Debian joining others in patching the Heimdal Kerberos man-in-the-middle bug. There are also fixes in Apache, a bunch of Linux updates, and …
I've got Raspbian Pixel running on a 4GB USB device. It's based on Debian. Response time is better than running from the harddrive.
I installed Debian 9 XFCE on an old laptop (Aspire 3050) on Saturday night. First boot after install it took 10+ minutes after login to reach the desktop. After selecting the default panel it never again started the panels saying no instance of XFCE was running. I tried xfce4-panel -r & from the terminal and the panels started and then the screen went cyan coloured and the computer froze. Ended up putting Debian 8 back on with no problems. Yes I spent Saturday night dicking around with Linux.