On 8/16/19 7:42 PM, Laurence Perkins wrote: > Note that, in my experience at least, binary distros also tend to > break hard if you leave them without updates for a year or more and > then try to bring them current. And they're usually harder to fix > when they do. So make sure that whatever you put in is kept up to > date. > > The stable branch of a good binary distro has a big advantage > there, especially with a snapshottable filesystem, because the > updates can be handed off to a trained monkey, leaving the experts > free for the important stuff. But it's not a magic bullet. If you > don't write good documentation and keep the system up to date > you'll end up in the exact same position a few years down the road > no matter what distro you use.
I agree ... there'll be unattended updates automatically and I am monitoring and using that server on a regular base anyway. The goal now is to get a well-known state with less maintenance complexity. I am currently booking my tickets there ;-)
