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		chalst on Jan 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian discusses vendoring again Debian stable offers unattended patches, which is something I value highly in public-facing server deployments. I haven't seen anything like this even proposed for NixOS. https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

antientropic on Jan 13, 2021 [–]

NixOS does have unattended automatic upgrades: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-upgrading-automat...

chalst on Jan 13, 2021 | [–]

Mea culpa: I should have been aware of that.

I'm looking at https://status.nixos.org/

Are the 6-12 month old releases more stable than the 0-6 month releases? (i.e., is 20.03 more stable than 20.09?)

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