Wanted to know if there’s such a thing as Debian based distro but make it Rolling release, is that something already in existence or will I have to just tinker a lot within Debian?

  • @alerich@discuss.tchncs.de
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    61 year ago

    I thought Debian Testing was basically rolling? Most of the packages at least Btw: Tumbleweed has been rock solid for me over years.

  • @Dougtron007@lemmy.world
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    31 year ago

    I’m not well versed with Linux but I saw a lot of people saying open SUSE tumbleweed was pretty good. I’m gonna try this today for my new low power Plex/home bridge machine.

    • @raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      This is an excellent suggestion, but be mindful that suse is an RPM-based distribution and upgrades will necessarily install slower than other formats. If that’s not a problem (just run updates via cron) then it’s fine.

      • Yote.zip
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        11 year ago

        It will probably be fine in practice (I hear openSUSE is relatively stable), but I wouldn’t recommend upgrading software automatically - you might end up with a broken system and no idea what caused it.

        • @fabian_drinks_milk@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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          11 year ago

          I am currently looking at using OpenSUSE Micro OS for a home server. It is based on Tumbleweed and also rolling release, but it has an immutable filesystem and can automatically update and rollback. It’s similar to Fedora Core OS, which was my first choice, until the Red Hat drama.

  • Meow.tar.gz
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    11 year ago

    I don’t know about a Debian-based rolling release. Have you thought about going to Arch. Pacman is a pretty good package management system.

    • @raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml
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      11 year ago

      Pacman is not a good package manager; if something goes wrong during the install it can leave your system in an unstable state. A better package manager would be one that has transactional updates.

  • veer66
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    11 year ago

    @mateowoetam It is Debian Sid. You can use Debian 12 Installer. After installing, you can change your repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list to sid, and running apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. I suppose you would prefer installing minimal packages before upgrading to Sid.

  • @letbelight@lemmy.ml
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    -31 year ago

    Fedora is rolling relase and stable. I choose fedora for some time, and after more than 4 years, never come back to deb based distro…

    It’s fun under EL

    • @dannoffs
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      41 year ago

      Fedora is most definitely not a rolling release. (Or stable in my experience)

      • @letbelight@lemmy.ml
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        31 year ago

        Fedora is stable enough (never have any crash with Fedora for 5 years, as long as I remember on Thinkpad), and it’s bleeding edge, most of software that’s just published, will be available in most fedora repo less than 1 day, as I remember. If it’s not rolling release, then what is it? Or the term of rolling release is different?

        • @dannoffs
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          11 year ago

          Fedora has quick updates, but big changes like gcc or gnome version upgrades, default desktop layout and included software, changes to the package manager, etc. all happen on numbered version releases. They’re on Fedora 38 now. Rolling release distros don’t have numbered releases, they just make changes whenever they’re ready and the “releases” are usually more or less arbitrary snapshots. If you go to the Arch download page, you’d see that the current release is just the date the snapshot was made.

          • @letbelight@lemmy.ml
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            21 year ago

            Oh, I see… soo the terms is different, my understanding is wrong then. Thank you for the correction and enlightenment.

      • oranki
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        21 year ago

        I’d second this. Fedora is great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not rolling or stable.

        I think stable was referring to not crashing here.