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I paid rent as a linux sysadmin for a ~dozen years so of course I have opinions about distros, but in the years since amazon linux has been out I've almost comp
by cagenut 9y ago
I paid rent as a linux sysadmin for a ~dozen years so of course I have opinions about distros, but in the years since amazon linux has been out I've almost completely left spending any mental energy at that layer behind. And now with containers & kube, I just need like a kernel and init!
I haven't actually read any real detail about it, but my understanding is this is why redhat bought coreos. The old redhat/debian is going to slowly turn into a tarball of static libs for backwards compatibility.
caveat: this is w/r/t "servers" I don't know/care about desktops/laptops.
- ognyankulev 9y agoWhat about security updates to your dependencies in your containers?
- jopsen 9y agoExactly! :) On the desktop we'll have the same problem with flatpaks. I hope it might all be okay, if the base-system is provided by distros..
- s_kilk 9y agoUpdate the image and roll out new containers?
- chatmasta 9y agoI think GP is referring to the fact that many containers use e.g. “apt-get” (i.e. the distro package manager) in their build process.
- viraptor 9y agoYou have to treat it as a separate system. Kind of like apps which have their own gem/npm/pip ecosystem. It's another list of versions to pay attention to. It sucks, but not worse than having another VM.