> Consider an appliance that will be shipped to a literal cave This. A decade ago I was technical co-founder of a company [0] that made interactive photo boot

> Consider an appliance that will be shipped to a literal cave This. A decade ago I was technical co-founder of a company [0] that made interactive photo booths and I chose CentOS for the OS. There are some out in the wild still working and powered on 24/7 and not a peep from any of them. We only ever did a few manual updates early on - after determining that the spotty, expensive cellular wasn't worth wasting on non-security updates - so most of them are running whatever version was out ten years ago. Rock solid. [0] https://sooh.com https://sooh.com