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How often do you update software on your servers? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 18 points 1 year ago* (11 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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 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.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year 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.

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