On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 6:48 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/20/2017 02:36 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:05 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/20/2017 10:41 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Obvious question is, which one?
I run two boxes, one as a server and the other just a desktop.
Why does it got to be just ONE?
Leap for the server. (just keep up with updates occasionally, or when you hear about significant vulnerabilities. After each point release - update to the new version. 42.2--->42.3 No need to re-install. Just do the in-place update. No actual reason to keep day by day updates.
But 42.3 -> 43.0 (aka Leap 15.0) is likely just 18-months away or less. That's a once every several years event for Leap and should have some updates that have been queued up for a couple years. Updates that are likely already in Tumbleweed.
Sure, but so what? What's your point?
Is the lack of those updates that are queued up hurting him in any way? How much better will his life be if he updates his server to tumble weed and has to apply rolling updates weekly, sometimes daily?
Its his server we are talking about here. Not his workstation.
An in place upgrade from one opensuse release to the next is almost always uneventful.
Other than a few kernel tweaks and security fixes along the way what else to you need in the server? I go MONTHS without touching my server machines.
I have a server that's been running since roughly Jan 1, 2013, so 4 1/2 years. I put the latest openSUSE on it at that time and about 6 months after each new release I upgrade the server. I can say with confidence that in the pre-Leap days I had upgrades where services quit serving. Maybe it was SFTP, email, or web; I don't really recall the details. Oh yeah, it was all 3: failure to reboot (twice I think). And the server is remote, so I had to fire up remote console access and troubleshoot from 500 miles away. I also recall a couple of updates that caused a background issue that took months to surface. (ie. log rotation stopped and I ended up overflowing my disk space was one. I think there was another.) I've never had Tumbleweed on a server, but if I was gun shy about doing inplace upgrade in pre-Leap days, I'd be just as gun shy about doing it at the end of Leap 42.3's lifetime. That's going to be a major upgrade by definition. So, if it was me doing a "non-business-critical" server from scratch today, I'd go with Tumbleweed for at least the next couple years. That's just my perspective, so I won't argue beyond the above. Good luck regardless which choice is made, Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org