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On the other hand, chasing after CVEs is also infuriating, but in the opposite direction. auto-update makes it possible to live in an environment where security
by groby_b 10y ago
On the other hand, chasing after CVEs is also infuriating, but in the opposite direction. auto-update makes it possible to live in an environment where security issues are found by the bucket load every day.
There really isn't a good answer either way, but between "breaks occasionally" and "needs a full-time admin, but updates are vetted", I prefer option 1 for my private systems, and option 2 for things that run in production.
- dozzie 10y agoThis is where supported distributions come in. In Debian or Red Hat you can practically assume that the OS update will not break anything. (There are occasions where it does break something, but I don't remember anything major in a good few years.)