# Discourse new Base Image

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-new-base-image/127427>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [September 2, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-new-base-image/127427 "2019-09-02T18:35:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-new-base-image/127427/3 "2019-09-02T21:02:23Z")

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The sysadmins prefer it for .. reasons, and our new hosting infra (almost totally switched over) is Debian based. Ubuntu is based on Debian upstream so in a sense this is moving closer to the source. One nice thing is that it is relatively modern, Debian is incredibly conservative, but we timed it nicely as Buster just came out a month or two ago.

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