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?

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years 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
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    32 years 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years 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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        12 years 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years 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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    12 years 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years 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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    12 years 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.

      • @babeuh
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        32 years ago

        The unstable version is but NixOS can still be ruled out as it’s not debian-based

      • @[email protected]
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        02 years ago

        Unstable is and from what I’ve heard, nixpkgs even is one of the fastest repos with updating packages (also the largest). But I still wouldn’t recommend it for OP.

  • @[email protected]
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    -32 years 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

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years 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?

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years 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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        22 years 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.