this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
27 points (88.6% liked)

Linux

48074 readers
1138 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
nooter692@lemmy.ml
MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml
cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
27
I had a realization today (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml
12 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

So I have had mixed results with unattended upgrades on Debian based distros. It sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It turns out that sometimes you need to enable it though dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades

Problem solved

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Moved to the countryside and stopped using computers? Or why don't you need to worry about automatic updates? Are you the boss and other people do the worrying? Or do you use one of those immutable distros and now worry in a different way?

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

well, with stuff like this i meant dpkg-reconfigure, since i switched to nixos where configuring and setting up basically means adding/editing a couple of lines in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix. For automatic system updates for example, i just had to add: system.autoUpgrade.enable = true; and done. Nicest way to configure and manage a system i've experienced yet.

[–] WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't all these edits create huge snapshots or what is called in nixos ?

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

not really an issue with a few more lines of configuration

nix.gc = {
    automatic = true;
    dates = "weekly";
    options = "--delete-older-than 30d";
};