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It's what happens with any rolling release distro given enough time. We thought it would solve the problem of having to upgrade the OS and migrate every few ye
by gnarbarian 10y ago
It's what happens with any rolling release distro given enough time. We thought it would solve the problem of having to upgrade the OS and migrate every few years but it didn't really.
Now we have docker. Probably not solved until we write all our applications as some sort of crazy monad to minimize maintenance pain. I think docker is a meaningful step toward that.
- toyg 10y ago> until we write all our applications as some sort of crazy monad Desktop Linux seems to be finally moving towards self-contained formats like AppImage and Flatpak. They are clearly not oriented towards server apps, but who knows.
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- lisivka 10y agoOMG. Self contained apps were there starting from Linux 0.1. They are reinvented every second year.
- toyg 10y agoYeah but they never got traction for this or that reason. This time it looks like several big players actually agree on a common way forward. I guess time will tell.
- c3833174 10y ago>It's what happens with any rolling release distro given enough time. Not really, the KISS nature of arch means that stuff that could be automated isn't because reasons, while systemd gets a special pass.
- digi_owl 10y agobecause systemd is a personal passion of one of the lead arch devs...
- skykooler 10y agoOf course, now you need to deal with docker itself updating constantly, and the client not being able to talk to the server if they're updated more than 3 months apart.
- SEJeff 10y agoOr just use rkt and don't worry about it. The CoreOS team takes api stability pretty seriously.