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> When you try to CRAM everything (mail, webserver, gitlab, pop3, imap, torrent, owncloud, munin, ...) into a single machine on Debian, you ultimately end-up ac

> When you try to CRAM everything (mail, webserver, gitlab, pop3, imap, torrent, owncloud, munin, ...) into a single machine on Debian, you ultimately end-up activating unstable repository to get the latest version of packages and end-up with conflicting versions between softwares to the point that doing an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade is now your nemesis. Has anyone here taken a look at bedrock linux? It lets you have multiple linux installations coexist and interoperate (different distros mainly, but probably different copies of debian is possible) I've been fascinated by it but never actually given it a try. From the bedrock linux introduction page: > Given someone already expended the effort to package the specific version of the specific piece of software a given user desires for one distro, the inability to use it with software from another distro seems wasteful. > Bedrock Linux provides a technical means to work around cross-distro compatibility limitations and, in many instances, resolve this limitation. https://bedrocklinux.org/introduction.html https://bedrocklinux.org/introduction.html

ParadigmComplex 6y ago
Bedrock Linux does indeed support workflows with multiple copies of Debian, and this does in practice often resolve the quoted concern of mixing parts from different Debian releases without having them step on each other problematically. Another use for having multiple Debian subsystems (what Bedrock calls "strata") is to serve as a low risk alternative to an in-place dist-upgrade: If anything doesn't work as desired in the new Debian release, just keep using the previous one until you get it working; once everything's migrated over, you've effectively dist-upgraded and can (if you wish) remove the old stratum. I'm Bedrock's founder and lead developer. If you have any questions about it I'm happy to answer them.

ParadigmComplex 6y ago

Bedrock Linux does indeed support workflows with multiple copies of Debian, and this does in practice often resolve the quoted concern of mixing parts from different Debian releases without having them step on each other problematically. Another use for having multiple Debian subsystems (what Bedrock calls "strata") is to serve as a low risk alternative to an in-place dist-upgrade: If anything doesn't work as desired in the new Debian release, just keep using the previous one until you get it working; once everything's migrated over, you've effectively dist-upgraded and can (if you wish) remove the old stratum. I'm Bedrock's founder and lead developer. If you have any questions about it I'm happy to answer them.