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> I highly discourage anyone to use Ubuntu Core as part of their solution. Yup. The guys at Nitrokey did a nice write-up about this last year.[1] (TL;DR in t
by traceroute66 4y ago
> I highly discourage anyone to use Ubuntu Core as part of their solution.
Yup.
The guys at Nitrokey did a nice write-up about this last year.[1]
(TL;DR in the end, they chose Debian instead)
[1] https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nextbox-why-we-decided-and-against-ubuntu-core https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nextbox-why-we-decided-an...
- hda111 4y agoYou can’t really compare the two wrt IoT. For Debian you need an additional OTA update mechanism. Luckily rauc is in the Debian repos but you still need to setup everything yourself: A/B partitioning etc.
- seized 4y agoMender is a nice solution for the A/B partition updates as well. https://mender.io/ https://mender.io/
- jamesgeck0 4y agoI'm surprised they ended up going with a non-immutable distro. They say their Debian-derived system is as robust as Ubuntu Core, but seemingly immediately contradict this by saying they're using apt to manage updates.
- GordonS 4y agoAren't they only using it for security updates though?
- stubish 4y agoapt updates are not transactional, so abort the update mid way and you have a partially applied update. Hopefully the packager was careful enough to ensure your system still boots and reapplying the update cleans everything up.
- nix23 4y agoYou can make a boot-enviroment-snapshot for active/backup. If anything goes wrong you boot backup, then again snapshot and repeat. That way you don't need anything more then apt/pkg etc.