afaik, your want of relatively fresh software with few patches excludes pretty much everything there is, except for really niche stuff. All other major options

afaik, your want of relatively fresh software with few patches excludes pretty much everything there is, except for really niche stuff. All other major options with good commercial support have been mentioned by siblings; I'll add Debian + Freexian to the list. https://www.freexian.com https://www.freexian.com