Looking for a distro with a solid stable base system and rolling application software

Jan K. · 03-13-2024, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by finalizer

All distros that I know are either the whole stable and not latest or the whole rolling/latest and less stable.

I know of one rolling release that's remarkable stable, if you follow the changelog you'll notice the lack of reverts... over the years I think only two or three minor ones occured?

But have a look for yourself https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...nt-4175698890/

finalizer · 03-14-2024, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Jan K.

I know of one rolling release that's remarkable stable, if you follow the changelog you'll notice the lack of reverts... over the years I think only two or three minor ones occured?

But have a look for yourself https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...nt-4175698890/

I could agree that Slackware is generally a good Linux distribution. However I'm not sure Slackware-current is stable enough. At least in the FreeBSD project (where Slackware inherited many concepts from) the FreeBSD-CURRENT development branch means unstable.

Could you check what was the situation in Slackware-current at 2013 when kernel 3.11.0 introduced a critical regression in one of its network drivers that can make the whole system stuck without network or constantly crashing?

This is what happened in Arch at that time https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36865

Jan K. · 03-14-2024, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by finalizer

... I'm not sure Slackware-current is stable enough.

Check the -current changelog for regressions and roll-backs...

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Originally Posted by finalizer

Could you check...

Nah, couldn't care less.