Re:LXD is now under Canonical
by packetlost on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @09:52AM
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You've been able to specifically schedule refresh times and interval's for awhile now. We did it monthly at a specific time and then set a calendar event with a couple notifications to keep track of it. IMO the "I can't turn off the updates" concern is overblown. If you aren't patching your systems ever you have problems anyways.
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Re:LXD is now under Canonical
by totallywrong on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:17AM
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Overblown? Tell that to people that were hit with production outages. The whole idea of automatic updates for software running critical workloads is so stupid that I lost all respect for Canonical as a vendor.
Re:LXD is now under Canonical
by bashgordon on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:40PM
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Why though? Isn't that a proven concept and beloved aspect of Microsoft Windows™? /s
The problem with auto updates for daemons and services is that the maintainer cannot possibly account for all the different ways their software is used to be able to guarantee that the new version doesn’t break some critical service. It’s akin to a team outsourcing their CI/CD pipeline to some 3rd party who have no idea they exist!