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On 8/16/19 7:42 PM, Laurence Perkins wrote: |
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> Note that, in my experience at least, binary distros also tend to |
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> break hard if you leave them without updates for a year or more and |
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> then try to bring them current. And they're usually harder to fix |
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> when they do. So make sure that whatever you put in is kept up to |
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> date. |
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> The stable branch of a good binary distro has a big advantage |
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> there, especially with a snapshottable filesystem, because the |
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> updates can be handed off to a trained monkey, leaving the experts |
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> free for the important stuff. But it's not a magic bullet. If you |
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> don't write good documentation and keep the system up to date |
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> you'll end up in the exact same position a few years down the road |
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> no matter what distro you use. |
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I agree ... there'll be unattended updates automatically and I am |
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monitoring and using that server on a regular base anyway. |
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The goal now is to get a well-known state with less maintenance |
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complexity. |
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I am currently booking my tickets there ;-) |
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