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Or asked the other way around: How long do you keep your servers running without installing any software updates?

update means something like

sudo dnf update

or something ....

apt-get upgrade
apt-get update
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[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Well, one of the reasons I'm using debian on my server is so I can kinda forget about it...

I'll update maybe once a month, or every couple months. I don't always restart though, so my kernel is probably a bit behind :'D

[–] eksb@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use Debian stable and subscribe to the debian-security-announce mailing list, so I update each time I get an email from it.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago

This is the way. (At least for a server)

[–] PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

lol. Same issue for me. I run it for months, and surprisingly (for me) nothing breaks at all.

But fucking ssh shows warnings regarding some "post quantum crypto" stuff; recommending software update, that was not there before lol.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's... Not how it works.. Debian is "stable" not "secure". You use Debian so that is easier to run updates frequently since they'll be unlikely to break things.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If I wanted to run updates frequently I would run arch lmao. Even if I did apt update every day, debian stable doesn't get that many updates.

I could just run auto-update but meh.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I wanted to run updates frequently I would run arch lmao. Even if I did apt update every day, debian stable doesn’t get that many updates.

You're not updating for features you're updating for bug and security fixes. That's why Debian stable doesn't have many updates. But the ones they do are typically important.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know. Until I get ransomware'd and my nudes leaked, I won't care 💅🏻✨

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz -1 points 2 days ago

I guess people smoke because they don't know smoking causes cancer ;3

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you talking about desktop use?

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

No, my home server. My desktop and laptop both have arch, because I do interact with them more often.