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exceptioneyesterday at 10:23 AM5 repliesview on HN

Can't comment on Raspbian, but Ubuntu LTS (has/had) a seriously outdated podman version. This is the kind of nuisance the Debian derivatives have been running into for more than 20 years: they are extremely conservative, and if that is all you need, then that is great, but if not, you'll have to either run the latest Ubuntu (not LTS), or you upgrade to something like fedora.


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linsomniacyesterday at 6:23 PM

Not sure if you consider 5.7.0 (6 months old) "seriously outdated", or are talking about Ubuntu 24.04 (the previous LTS). I recently looked and decided 5.8.2 (3 weeks old), didn't have anything compelling to make me want to try to shoehorn it in.

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mr_mitmyesterday at 10:44 AM

In many cases, Debian unstable is also a good choice.

jiggunjeryesterday at 10:27 AM

Is there no upstream package repo like docker has.

MrDrMcCoyyesterday at 4:01 PM

So use a static build of podman. They're readily available.

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skydhashyesterday at 11:18 AM

> they are extremely conservative, and if that is all you need, then that is great

You don’t need to live at the edge of new features. Do you upgrade your fridge and your oven every two months? It’s nice when you can have something running and not worry that the next update will break your software and/or your workflow.

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