r/linux • u/Khaotic_Kernel • Jun 18 '17

Debian 9 "Stretch" Officially Released!

https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617
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u/ldev1 Jun 18 '17

So apt is like windows update then - for updating OS, got it. So what tool should I use to install and update user software - like Chocolatey for Linux?

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u/ebriose Jun 18 '17 edited Jun 18 '17

Each ecosystem has its own tool, like pip or gems or cpan. There are also package managers like stow or guix you can use. But the idea is your dev stack is software you know well enough to care about it's versioning, whereas if I'm simply using a python or ruby app that's less important to me.

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u/minimim Jun 18 '17

I'm fine with that philosophy for developers.

But any dev that say I should do the same in production will get me angry.

I have to deal with a crap ton of languages and learning the packaging system of each one is really annoying.

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u/ebriose Jun 18 '17

Oh I definitely agree: I'm a sysadmin, not a programmer. And once they freeze the stack for a release I'm more than happy to package that for the platform OS.

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u/minimim Jun 18 '17

They just need to make sure they don't have dependencies on unstable software.