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While Stripe doesn't support monthly donations, you can still become a sponsor! Simply make a one-time donation equivalent to 12 months of support, and you'll gain access to the corresponding sponsoring tier. It's an easy and flexible way to contribute.

If you are not sure or not able to commit to a regular donation, but still want to help the project, you can do a one-time donation, of any amount.

Choose freely the amount you wish to donate one time only.

You can support FreeCAD by sponsoring it as an individual or organization through various platforms. Sponsorship provides a steady income for developers, allowing the FPA to plan ahead and enabling greater investment in FreeCAD. To encourage sponsorship, we offer different tiers, and unless you choose to remain anonymous, your name or company logo will be featured on our website accordingly.

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Instead of donating each month, you might find it more comfortable to make a one-time donation that, when divided by twelve, would give you right to enter a sponsoring tier. Don't hesitate to do so!

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Debian Unstable

Debian Unstable is a rolling distribution used for Debian development and recommended for advanced users in FreeCAD development and packaging. New packages are ready as soon as they are uploaded and built, unless the uploader has marked them for Debian Experimental which requires explicit installation (after some setup to enable the extra distribution) via .

Frequently, people using Debian Testing should actually use Debian Unstable; Debian Testing should only be considered a \"QA release pocket\", since, while it may appear to be more stable than Unstable, there\'s actually a downside. New packages are uploaded to Debian Unstable and migrate to Testing after some time, and so security fixes and important packaging changes can be inappropriately delayed.

There are two key things to a good user experience in Unstable. The first is to never blindly run sudo apt full-upgrade or its equivalents without first checking the results of the operation. If it\'s saying you\'ll free up hundreds of MB of space, there\'s a package transition underway which will remove a good portion of your system. Instead, one can safely run sudo apt upgrade and get new packages. Sometimes, this will result in packages being held back, which means it may be appropriate to run full-upgrade as package uninstallation may actually be necessary.

The second key is to embrace that you\'re taking part in Debian development, and use the appropriate tools and methods. For example, that may mean installing packages like apt-listbugs or apt-listchanges or subscribing to Debian mailing lists like debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org.

While Debian Unstable is perfectly suitable as a long-term daily driver, it\'s also very easy to run in a virtual machine, where breakages won\'t be such a big deal. Simply download a Debian Testing ISO, install it into a VM and update it, and then edit /etc/apt/sources.list to contain something like:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

 deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates main contrib non-free

 deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

 deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

If you want to enable packages from Experimental, put this into

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free

 deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free

⏵ documentation index > Packaging > Developer Documentation > Debian Unstable

This page is retrieved from https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-documentation/blob/main/wiki/Debian_Unstable.md

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