Re:“Long term support” Unixes and versions of software in them
by pornel on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @08:53AM
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I'm not saying Docker doesn't work well. But whether you're using a slim OS in Docker or not, you're still choosing not to use your host OS, because your host OS is failing to provide equally stable, reliable and reproducible environment for your applications.
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Re:“Long term support” Unixes and versions of software in them
by zerowellies on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:08AM
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the irony is - if you stick to software of the time, you live in GNOME LTS land - it's pretty frictionless and stable. my experience is the bad times start rolling in as soon as you need to compile - sway for example - you need a newer version of meson than is on ubuntu LTS, and there's a tight wayland dependency too. its the shiny new software (often the ones posted on hn...) that end up needing the most up to date build dependencies.
i agree - it's a failing of the pkg management and devs. but also - the hardware developers. if you rely on prop blobs - docker is a way to liberate yourself somewhat from this - you dont need to have a well maintained upstream