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Some organizations value stability over new features, which is why you see so many places using distros like debian stable, centos, etc. It may not fit your nee
by untothebreach 11y ago
Some organizations value stability over new features, which is why you see so many places using distros like debian stable, centos, etc. It may not fit your needs, but there are plenty of use cases for preferring stability and security over new features.
- jarcane 11y agoThere are advantages, yes, not denying that, but it seems vanishingly rare to find a packaging system that doesn't have this problem, and that's frustrating in particular for a programmer when almost every single language you use doesn't have an up-to-date package and winds up requiring an external install that then isn't even necessarily version tracked. And I do wonder at the security implications of that. Some of the more popular languages like Python get semi-regular security updates even on stable branches like Debian's, but then I see stuff like Racket still being on 5.2 which came out in 2011 and I have to wonder how that affects the security profile if some "stable" package you've installed is depending on a scripting language package that still has a vulnerability in it because the package in "stable" hasn't been updated in half a decade.
- TsiCClawOfLight 11y agohave you tried arch? sounds like you would like it :)