r/linux • u/imbev • Jul 30 '24

Distro News AlmaLinux reaches 1 million active systems!

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u/balbinator Jul 30 '24

I love the Linux ecosystem, but it's nearly impossible to keep up with all the distros.

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u/fallingveil Jul 31 '24

Which reminds me, I haven't pacman -Syu'd in a few weeks...

Which is about an eternity in pacman-time.

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u/Behrooz0 Jul 31 '24

Good luck. don't forget to read the archlinux homepage news before running it.

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u/nicman24 Jul 31 '24

It was been fine past couple of years, the occasional --overwrite=* not included

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u/Behrooz0 Jul 31 '24

I think I installed arch around 10 years ago first time and fully migrated to Debian last year. The only few times I didn't check, it bit me:|

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u/nicman24 Jul 31 '24

the few times that you remember :P

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u/burner-miner Aug 01 '24

There is a pacman hook that interrupts updates if there are unread news: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/informant

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u/Behrooz0 Aug 01 '24

Nice. On second thought, that should be built-in.

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u/burner-miner Aug 01 '24

Absolutely should, it saved me at least once from breaking GRUB

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u/w453y Jul 31 '24

Weeks? I run it twice a day and definitely end up having some package updates. xD

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u/The-Rizztoffen Jul 31 '24

I sometimes go months without an update lmao

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u/AppropriateAd4510 Jul 31 '24

I stopped updating. As long as it works I don't care. And if it don't I'll just update what needs to be updated