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What distribution is most used in production environment (lemmy.stonansh.org)

submitted 1 year ago by lemmy@lemmy.stonansh.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've come across Red Hat allot lately and am wondering if I need to get studying. I'm an avid Ubuntu server user but don't want to get stuck only knowing one distro. What is the way to go if i want to know as much as I can for use in real world situations.

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[–] Bogasse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You mean you never received any major package update on arch ? 😛

More seriously, it depends on what we are talking about, if everything runs in container I agree that it kinda doesn't matter, you will just have a more up to date kernel, but it is stable enough.

Other peoples on this thread are talking about actual system dependancies, for example installing a postgres server from official repo. On this example it would require a database migration as soon as a major postgres version is released, which means some downtime and non-scheduled maintainance.