Looking for a distro with a solid stable base system and rolling application software
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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?
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?
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?
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?
I was using slackware-current at the time and I have no idea what you’re talking about.
If the critical regression was as well-known as you claim, then what obviously would have happened is that the distro maintainer noticed, and did not change the kernel to the obviously buggy version. You know, just as distro maintainers today didn't update xz-utils to the hacked version, and the ones that did have reverted it.
Maybe I didn't explain my question well enough. It's not about mutability of the base system but about how package maintainers do their job. Packages of the base system need to be solid stable and receive only minor updates related to stability and security, i.e. no new functionality until the next major release of the whole distro. In contrast all other packaged software is latest, released with a minimum delay after the upstream, i.g. it's rolling.
Debian. With FlatPaks.
I know this wasn’t what you wanted to hear, but it’s the answer and you need to swallow this pill.
I think you're looking for a BSD, not Linux. BSD systems have an integrated core (kernel, shell, basic libraries and Unix utilities) that only gets updated as a unit, and then you add your applications separately. And in a really traditional BSD, you build those locally from source, though modern BSDs use prebuilt packages as an alternative.
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