Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave…

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

  • Kwozyman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For all my non-compliant, non-supported hosts I started using Fedora CoreOS quite successfully.

    If you package your applications as containers, you should have a very easy time with it. It’s based off ostree, which means a couple of things:

    • immutable (so not easy to break, I guess?)
    • atomic upgrades, which means you upgrade in a single step
    • atomic and full rollbacks, which means if an upgrade breaks your host, you can rollback to the exact previous version booted simply by choosing it from grub
    • still based on rpm, so you will still have a grasp of it, even though many things are completely different
    • other benefits I forgot, I’m sure :)

    All with the added benefit that once you go towards containers you can change your distro with minimal effort, so there’s that.