On: Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?

[e1g]

RHEL is free for up to 15 instances (including prod), and 9.1 has pleasantly current packages. It’s a solid choice for startups and small teams who need to minimize time spent on infrastructure.

[jacooper → e1g]

I found the one year renewal thing annoying, but other than that it looks to be really good! Just the auto kernel update part is left

[e1g → jacooper]

Kernel live patching helps to guard against major security and bug issues and is fully automated in RHEL via kpatch.

[jacooper → e1g]

But it's paid, I don't necessarily need livepatching, just auto restarts to update the kernel

[e1g → jacooper]

Not quite sure which scenario you mean, but both of these work in the official RHEL distro that is free for up to 15 instances:

1. Restart is ok: automatically apply all security updates as they come out ("dnf-automatic), then restart if required ("needs-restarting -r").

2. Restart is not ok: automatically apply all kernel patches as they come out("kpatch auto")

[jacooper → e1g]

Dnf automatic should support restart now! https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1879

However its o my going to work on rhel 10 or anything that has very very up to date DNF version.

[jacooper → jacooper]

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