It can be done, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Containers and VMs running a stable distro on top of something like Fedora, Tumbleweed, or whatever else is my preferred setup.
Something like Fedora also has a more mature in-place upgrade ability than the EL distros have.
Except CentOS/RHEL. RH doesn’t build the kernels with btrfs support.
I once had a C# dev tell me they couldn’t run JavaScript because they didn’t have Java installed.
Bibi needs a mustache.
Going to start a change.org petition, and maybe this is one thing the WH will press him on.
Yeah, really. OpenBSD punches above its weight. There are many things they would like todo, but don’t have the resources.
What’s the name of their rap group?
The prevalence of FOSS software is amazing.
Linux distros, BSDs, GCC, LLVM, GNU tools… The equivalent stack in the 90s was expensive, proprietary, and rare. I was getting software from magazine CDs, and none of the expensive tool chains were showing up on them.
Free DVCS in Git is also great. No manual versioning schemes anymore. git init for a new repo. There was SVN, but it required a server.
I disagree with this. I think humans are at the bottom. Good people get reincarnated as animals, and the peak is coming back as a manatee.
Being some weird ass space worm would be cool.
I’m not sure about that. Android isn’t Linux for those reasons, but ChromeOS is much, much closer to a regular GNU/Linux distro. They’re even switching to Wayland from what I’ve heard. 😄
ChromeOS uses a custom display server for the moment, but Chrome + is pretty similar. 🤷🏽♂️
ChromeOS is moving to Wayland as their display server, to make it even more of a standard Linux install.
You answered your own question. Maintaining software will eat up lots of time. It’s fine when there is a team to maintain software for installs, but not really something a single person running a desktop/laptop probably wants to deal with.
The 5yr release cycle is a pain starting about year 3 even for people who get paid to deal with it. 😆
VMs and containers on top of something more up to date is the best of both. Up to date distro with features, and all the distros one could want!
In-place upgrades are very relevant. Who wants to destroy their setup and reinstall everything when a new OS is released?
There is leapp for EL in-place upgrades, but it’s new and rather rough, from my testing.
Flatpak has made software support better, but I’d still recommend something else without a concrete reason, like proprietary CFD software or something which only supports EL.