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[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

100%. I’ve got servers running arch for the past 5 years or so and they’re the most stable systems I’ve got. I got so tired of the painful upgrade paths on “stable” distros so decided to switch a server to a rolling release.

After I found arch got security patches into the repos faster than the stable distros could backport, I decided to switch them all over.

I’m even a mad man and have them self update with a script that checks informant (or something, can’t actually remember) for installed packages against news. If no installed packages are found in news, it continues with the scheduled update.

It’s glorious.

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[–] redsand@infosec.pub 23 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I fully endorse gentoo and arch in prod

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[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

Especially when customizing the kernel is the default experience with Gentoo, reducing the theoretical attack surface even more if you know what you're doing.

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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

I was too lazy for scripting the update to check the news and just get a mail when the update has issues... or should get one.

In reality I check if the email process still works once every blue moon because I didn't get one from a failed update in years.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

If you want to have at least some thrill, use testing repos. I had to fix GitLab two (2) times due to the main package not being linked against testing libraries (it took 10 seconds to ln -s the new to the old version), and had one breakage due to dovecot revamping their whole config system, but publishing no example/useful docs.

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