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Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave..

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can definitely go wrong with an Ubuntu server

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How? I've run several for years with no issue. They're as stable as a rock

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

snaps are pretty insecure.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Snaps are pretty terrible IMO, so I usually end up bootstrapping a custom Ubuntu image without snap for this reason (and others) for my cloud images. Definitely not general purpose though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why not just use Mint, which strips snap outfor you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mint doesn't build cloud images as far as I'm aware.

[–] Anonymo 1 points 2 years ago

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/immutable-all-snap-ubuntu-desktop you ready? /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

*citation needed

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Go to the snap site and try to find a security section that describes how snap packages are signed. You won't be able to find it because it doesn't exist, and they don't highlight their own security vulnerabilities.

What I can cite is how this should work, for example how apt signs all packages by default

https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt

Note how in the above doc there's a message

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
...
Install these packages without verification [y/N]?

That doesn't exist in snap because snap does not authenticate downloads. It'll just happily install something maliciously modified.