Wanted to know if there’s such a thing as Debian based distro but make it Rolling release, is that something already in existence or will I have to just tinker a lot within Debian?
There’s Siduction which is basically Debian Sid (unstable) with a lot of the work done for you.
chiming in to say i’m currently running siduction on my laptop - it’s pretty good, i like it
I think you want Debian Unstable (Sid) or smth
I thought Debian Testing was basically rolling? Most of the packages at least Btw: Tumbleweed has been rock solid for me over years.
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I’m not well versed with Linux but I saw a lot of people saying open SUSE tumbleweed was pretty good. I’m gonna try this today for my new low power Plex/home bridge machine.
This is an excellent suggestion, but be mindful that suse is an RPM-based distribution and upgrades will necessarily install slower than other formats. If that’s not a problem (just run updates via cron) then it’s fine.
It will probably be fine in practice (I hear openSUSE is relatively stable), but I wouldn’t recommend upgrading software automatically - you might end up with a broken system and no idea what caused it.
@mateowoetam It is Debian Sid. You can use Debian 12 Installer. After installing, you can change your repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list to sid, and running apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. I suppose you would prefer installing minimal packages before upgrading to Sid.
I don’t know about a Debian-based rolling release. Have you thought about going to Arch. Pacman is a pretty good package management system.
Pacman is not a good package manager; if something goes wrong during the install it can leave your system in an unstable state. A better package manager would be one that has transactional updates.
nixos
Nix isn’t rolling release
The unstable version is but NixOS can still be ruled out as it’s not debian-based
Fedora is rolling relase and stable. I choose fedora for some time, and after more than 4 years, never come back to deb based distro…
It’s fun under EL
Fedora is most definitely not a rolling release. (Or stable in my experience)
I’d second this. Fedora is great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not rolling or stable.
I think stable was referring to not crashing here.
Fedora is stable enough (never have any crash with Fedora for 5 years, as long as I remember on Thinkpad), and it’s bleeding edge, most of software that’s just published, will be available in most fedora repo less than 1 day, as I remember. If it’s not rolling release, then what is it? Or the term of rolling release is different?
