Questions tagged [rolling-release]
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Is Debian stable a rolling release?
The question is really that simple: is Debian stable a rolling release? If it's not a rolling release type OS, does a rolling release distro exist which is based on Debian stable?
I know Debian unstable and Debian testing rolling release distros…
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How to fully upgrade Debian from command line (including release_version)?
I desire to totally upgrade everything in Debian:Stable including the release version, to the newest stable release available:
Packages update
Packages upgrade
D:S minor_version
D:S major_version
D:S release_version
Each action will be done…
user149572
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Debian-based distros that have a regular release cycle
Are there any Debian based distributions that have a regular release cycles besides Ubuntu or Linux Mint? I'm running Squeeze right now and I really like the Debian ecosystem and package system. However, a lot of the programs it ships with are…
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Understanding Arch Linux release cycle
I'm new to Arch and perhaps this question has been asked hunderd of times before but I culdn't find an answer even in the official Arch documentation like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions
Arch it's a…
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How do rolling releases work?
In my understanding of linux distributions, you get notified of updates, then by a simple click or with a bunch of commands you can install them. These may be patches or minor version updates of software you installed previously. For example, the…
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MongoDB installation size is huge
I need MongoDB to install on Arch Linux. It needs 180+GB free space for installation.
However, I have 99GB partition where Arch Linux is installed and 107GB partition free.
Can I installed MongoDB by ignoring all? Please suggest me how to get…
any thing you like
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live PHP webapp deployment
I am looking to setup Bamboo to do live PHP deployments (same principles can apply to Jenkins)
I would like to be able to do live releases with the push of a button in the Bamboo application.
However, I would like to ensure that sessions remain…
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Scientific-Linux: which version has bigger support date?
We have several Desktop PCs that have Fedora 14 installed, but we need a Linux distro that doesn't need a reinstall every half year (no, dist-upgrade is not an option). We found Scientific-Linux, and according to the roadmap we have two options:
We…
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When does Fedora provide extended support releases for Java?
I'm trying to run a jar file which checks the installed version of Java explicitly:
*** The version you have requested to build requires Java versions between [Java 8, Java 12], but you are using Java 13
I am able to install OpenJDK 11 from my…
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Mint vs Ubuntu vs rolling release security
Maybe a broad question, but I would like to know if is there any difference between those distros regarding security and privacy.
For instance, I was not able to find an official privacy policy for linux mint and I read ubuntu shares dash typed info…
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The packages to be newly installed are the same as the packages that should be autoremoved!
I am noticing a very peculiar thing just after shifting to Debian-based distros.
root@Am-I-Helpful:~# uname -a
Linux Am-I-Helpful 4.3.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-5kali4
(2016-01-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux
The output of apt-get update && apt-get…
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Does the size of my Arch always grow when I install updates?
Since Arch Linux is a rolling distributive, each time I update a system by "pacman -Syu" it downloads updates of about 50-100Mb and then it unzips them which make them even bigger.
I wonder, does that mean that it takes more and more my disk space…
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Ubuntu ahead of Debian unstable
Apart from debian stable, testing and unstable branch contains more recent version of software. Ubuntu takes unstable one and maintains its own release system. But my point is for example KDE. KDE 19 is present in Kubuntu latest, while debian…
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Baseurl with hardcoded release version and with $releasever
I have some CentOS based VMs in Azure and recognized that depending on the precise base image I used to deploy them, a different repository configuration is in place.
Rolling Release Configuration
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever -…
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Rolling upgrade/deployment for wine?
While I am using wine to run some Windows exe program files on Lubuntu 18.04, I update and upgrade which probably have updated wine.
While I am still running the Windows exe programs, I try to run another Windows exe program,
$ wine…
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