In 1998, Debian was a great option for SPARC and Alpha, and that’s really where I cut my teeth with Linux. Around 2004, I was building Gentoo up from stage1 ju

In 1998, Debian was a great option for SPARC and Alpha, and that’s really where I cut my teeth with Linux. Around 2004, I was building Gentoo up from stage1 just like many other commenters. For 2024 and personal stuff I’m back on Debian and it’s safe enough I pull security updates daily - entirely automated and no review on my part. It essentially never causes a problem. Updating once a year sounds terrifying to me given the rate of vulnerability discoveries of late. As ever your mileage may vary and your systems aren’t my systems, but Debian truly is a wonderful OSS project and as of August 2023 it celebrated its 30th anniversary! Gentoo going binary feels weird :) I’ve still got a soft spot for Gentoo and what it enabled me to do 15 years ago when I had more time for personal hacks.