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  • 33 years with Linux (kernel 1.2.13, slackware). Worked at a distro. Worked in OS security – Unix and enterprise Linux. I helped build United Linux out of the dismembered corpse suse kicked over the fence as ‘collaboration’.

    Because of the validation issue in the .deb package format and others, I’m on a mixture of Rocky and Nobara.

    I’m subscribed to cloudLinux’s tuxcare enterprise updates for some older stuff, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s excellent; and if almalinux releases their sLTS distro release and actually covers it for 25 years, that will be such a coup.

    I’m worried at the direction Linux has been taken by IBM and I hope it can be unfucked one day. I miss the reliable, fast boots and uncomplicated tooling before this systemd shitshow.












  • I can’t think of any case where a routine update caused trouble for me.

    I second this.

    Since about 2002, I’ve had a growing number of machines (ent Linux, similar to fedora) who simply patch nightly via cron. I get mail on the changes. In 24 years of yum-cron I’ve seen one error (busted deps on cobbler) and caused one error (too-old smb.conf during an update) and that’s it.

    So, my fuck-up aside, the only issue I’ve seen with a yum-cron patching setup (in dev/test and homelab) in ~25 years is exactly one issue on boxes running a mainstream but not prevalent piece of software due to a packaging glitch. That’s it.