Greg KH Favors Rolling Release Distros

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 5, 2015 @03:05AM from the as-long-as-the-hill-is-gentle dept.

jones_supa writes In an interesting Google+ post, the lieutenant Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman mentions him fully moving to rolling-release Linux distributions: 'Finally retired my last 'traditional' Linux distro box yesterday, it's all 'rolling-release' Linux systems for me. Feels good. And to preempt the ask, it's Arch Linux almost everywhere (laptop, workstation, cloud servers), CoreOS (cloud server), and Gentoo for the remaining few (laptop, server under my desk).' What's your experience? Would in the current situation a rolling-release operating system indeed be the optimal choice?

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Don't bother with Debian. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-05 03:27 · Score: 0, Troll

I was a Debian user for many years. Most of them were quite good. But Debian has fallen apart since they adopted systemd some time ago. Its quality has dropped. Its community is divided and in tatters, with the systemd advocates treating long-time Debian users like total crap. It no longer lives up to its reputation. So I suggest you don't waste your time with it. I know I don't. I've moved to FreeBSD, and I couldn't be happier. FreeBSD is a lot like Debian used to be, before it was "infected" by systemd and the systemd advocates.