For some time I’ve been wondering if, in the context of low-effort system maintenance, the occasional breakage in a rolling distro like Archlinux or Gentoo (with an auto-update cron job even!) is a lower impact×risk than attempting a set&forget Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS 10-year LTS install.
Server and desktop(someone else’s, which you support) alike.
Everything is automated today, cloud this and cloud that, but very few people know just how vulnerable everything is behind the scenes, and why being a system administrator is so demanding and difficult. This is also why I care very little for all the hype and buzz, words like “DevOps” and “secure by virtualization” is even a grandeur delusion than the problems described above.
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
For some time I’ve been wondering if, in the context of low-effort system maintenance, the occasional breakage in a rolling distro like Archlinux or Gentoo (with an auto-update cron job even!) is a lower impact×risk than attempting a set&forget Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS 10-year LTS install.
Server and desktop(someone else’s, which you support) alike.
From the article.