Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:47:32AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 10:53:09 +0200
> Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
> 
> 
> > For the new system, I'd like to select an host Linux distribution with
> > stable but up-to-date kernel, 

One feature that is unique (AFAIR) to Debian Stable is that it attempts to
maintain a stable interface to kernel modudles (if you care about this),
which means you don't have to rebuild them on most kernel upgrades. I'm not
aware of other distributions that try to guarantee that.

> > Docker and a virtualization system
> > (VirtualBox or other).  For this, Debian Stable (today's Debian
> > Jessie) is not the answer as it gets updated about once each two
> > years.
> 
> Hi Omer,
> 
> Sounds to me like you're looking for a rolling release: Gentoo, Funtoo,
> Arch, Manjaro, Void etc.

In a rolling release you have to upgrade if you want to apply fixes.

[snip. Various rolling releases discussed. Void was one of them]

> From what I hear second hand, Void is the one of these rolling releases
> *least* likely to bork your system on an update.

I guess the problem is that you have to state it this way.

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