Debian has less complexityand is very stable. It has a nice wiki and a Debian system can run for a few years on unattended upgrades.

Edit: this post was originally about cost savings but that is not really a useful metric

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Debian uses like 200MBs of ram for a basic fresh install. That’s negligible.

    Unless you’re deploying 500 virtual machines on a single server, that all run a single simple basic task the base ram usage of the OS shouldn’t even be a factor.

    • fuzzzerd@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      I think this is a fairly common use case. Maybe not the most common, but I’ve definitely seen this at multiple shops.

      Density of RAM on hosts is often a limiting factor for scaling. Not every app is CPU hungry. Some just need to be available, and running a whole is for isolation is the way it’s done in a lot of shops.

    • Possibly linuxOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      For me it uses about 50mb. This means that something like a 1gb ram VM will go much farther.