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What distribution is most used in production environment (lemmy.stonansh.org)

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I've come across Red Hat allot lately and am wondering if I need to get studying. I'm an avid Ubuntu server user but don't want to get stuck only knowing one distro. What is the way to go if i want to know as much as I can for use in real world situations.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Support contracts for risk mitigation is a big part of it, and the other is RH release engineering is amazing.

Aside from that, RHEL, and clones, is a very straight forward, clean distro. It’s very focused with everything doted and tidy, and overall, it has a very uncomplicated feel to it. In contrast Debian derivatives are kind of messy, and SUSE tries to stuff every function into a single application.

RHEL does push a lot of technology. Out of the stable distros, it will be the first to put tech into production. RH does a lot with integration with other systems. This has kept me off of SUSE in the past. RHEL was more tech forward, comparatively.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

dnf downgrade

dnf history undo

dnf history redo

it's very very very critical for most case :')

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can just snapshot before any transaction in apt / pacman / whatever else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's hard, and better have package manager built in. It's not enough in the enterprise sadly... Just saying, and I think most Corporate with agree with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the package manager will have it built in with a simple hook. works great with unattended upgrades.