Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using ArchLinux for server production e...
by rakoo on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:45AM
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Interestingly, the rolling release approach is already the way companies like Facebook or Google are releasing their services: when all tests pass it goes on master, and whatever is on master goes to prod. There are no releases, no backporting, no humongous release notes, etc... In a sense I like the idea that my server acts the same way, because the server is there to provide a service the same way Google provides a search service.
> I very much like the process of steadily keeping up to date bit by bit, instead of stagnating on a stable base and doing a big bang update every few years. I also like the fact that I don't need to know which version of which release am I going to get, it's always the latest one and it's the one that upstream released.
Yeah, that's also the motivation of this thread from my side. In fact, moving between majors for example has also "risks" to tackle (E.g CentOS 6 to 7 to 8). You know, things that you need to take time to evaluate and test. But in the other hand, having rolling release upgrades makes that headache disappears.
So IMO I believe the Arch rolling release approach will be the next way to upgrade our software on a non-distant future. It's time to try out and test ArchLinux on hot places like servers.