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Ask HN: Does LTS Linux still make sense?

4 points by indymike ↗ HN
Most of my team's remaining deployment issue come from dealing with different versions of Linux distributions. Do rolling release distributions make more sense / work better now than in the past?

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dyingkneepad
Of course LTS still makes sense. In a production system you really only want to update the minimum possible in order to keep everything working, and the minimum possible is security and high-priority bugs only. Why would I want to keep churning all the software running all the time?!

Edit: clarifying which of your 2 answers I said yes to.

gtirloni
I didn't get how different Linux distributions and LTS versions are related. Care to elaborate?
indymike
Some distributions are rolling release where there is only the latest.
yuppie_scum
Have you considered containerization for the application? That would obviate the host OS issue mostly
indymike
Yes. Does not solve host OS issue. Still have to keep that up to date.