Post #2157414
2026-05-07 13:23 UTC
Depends on what you mean by professional and your needs.
Debian (stable) is rock solid but (because) slow changing, if your application is slow (or not) changing it’s probably the better choice, but if you need new things before it’s ready for a new version it’ll be pain. It’s the professional sysad’s choice because they’ll likely not have to do anything.
Fedora is faster moving (think cutting edge, not bleeding edge (e.g. Arch) as opposed to Debian’s blunt safety) so if you’re in active development it’s likely a better choice. It is also sort of the testing arm for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is the quintessential professional Distro, so you’ll learn some of that along the way.
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@utopiah@lemmy.ml 2026-05-07 13:43
if you need new things before it’s ready for a new version it’ll be pain Like what? Also if you need something before Debian is ready for it… you’re weird. I don’t mean this in a derogatory fashion, solely that you are doing something our of the ordinary. Consequently you should first question WHY you do that in the first place. Finally if you do need something very specific, containers are there to … contain that. Running Debian as he host distribution doesn’t mean you’re limited to it for your applications, servers included.
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@Bullerfar@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 15:22
Just mean stable. Atleast it should not be the distros fault something suddenly isn’t working