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Ask HN: Does LTS Linux still make sense?
Most of my team's remaining deployment issue come from dealing with different versions of Linux distributions. Do rolling release distributions make more sense / work better now than in the past?
- dyingkneepad 4y agoOf course LTS still makes sense. In a production system you really only want to update the minimum possible in order to keep everything working, and the minimum possible is security and high-priority bugs only. Why would I want to keep churning all the software running all the time?! Edit: clarifying which of your 2 answers I said yes to.
- gtirloni 4y agoI didn't get how different Linux distributions and LTS versions are related. Care to elaborate?
- indymike 4y agoSome distributions are rolling release where there is only the latest.
- yuppie_scum 4y agoHave you considered containerization for the application? That would obviate the host OS issue mostly
- indymike 4y agoYes. Does not solve host OS issue. Still have to keep that up to date.