I agree with finding a mentor.

Please tell the EFF about that.

> Keep them honest with copyleft licenses to keep users free of this kind of nonsense.

... and support the GPL compliance efforts of organisations like Software Freedom Conservancy:

https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/

Looks like "they aren't from the Plan 9 world".

You can install security updates from unstable using the output of debsecan:

apt-get -t unstable install $(debsecan --suite sid --format packages --only-fixed)

Just keep in mind that unstable is not guaranteed to get security fixes promptly, either. The Debian Security Team only handles supported releases.

The Security Team FAQ is a good read: https://www.debian.org/security/faq#unstable

It's quite explicit in saying that if security is important to you, then you should run a supported release.

Based on what you have said it sounds like you want Ubuntu's rolling release, which is upgraded daily.

Ubuntu Snappy packages are based on the normal Ubuntu packages so they will be at the same versions.

My understanding was that snappy packages can be descriptions that point to i.e. Github to get latest versions. Hmm, never heard of Ubuntu rolling and it is not at vpn providers I know. But I will check it out!

Actually Debian's rolling release is newer than Arch, 5.3.1:

https://packages.debian.org/source/testing/gcc-5

That's in testing though. Arch has 5.3.0 in core already. Not sure where the .1 comes from since it's not even released yet according to https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html

Edit: Actually it looks like the versions are just named differently. Debian uses SVN version from 20151205, while Arch uses 20160209. So Arch is more fresh (by 2 months), but uses different naming convention.

testing is Debian's rolling release.

Ack on the version stuff.

Testing isn't a rolling release, that's sid / unstable.

Testing is where the next stable (currently Stretch) is being worked out.

Except it's not, it's for testing.

Testing doesn't always get security fixes in a timely manner.

Read more at: https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing

> testing is Debian's rolling release.

Except for when it freezes.

How about being a compiler engineer in the UK?

http://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/embecosm-compiler-engineer

Ubuntu is doing it totally differently to Debian.

Debian uses the compile-at-install-time workaround but Ubuntu ships binaries, which is a GPL violation.

Not exceptionally cheap, but:

https://omnia.turris.cz/en/