I understand that Core is attacking Bitcoin. I want to help and run a node with Knots. Do start9 products come with knots? I don’t want to deal with the problems I see in these comments switching to knots. From what I hear Start9 should not providing Core in their directory.
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A StartOS server is a general purpose personal server. It doesn’t come with Bitcoin at all. You choose what to run on your server.
Bitcoin Knots is currently available in the Community Registry. But it’s a bit of a hack. It will be available in the Official Start9 registry in the “coming soon” next version of StartOS.
StartOS does not ever do automatic updates. This is deliberate. If the team behind whatever implementation of Bitcoin you use, ever adds something, or makes changes you don’t want, you simply don’t upgrade. Some make a pretty compelling case for the idea that the default should be to never upgrade until you have a specific reason for doing so. Of course that requires you to be much more intricately knowledgeable about the version you’re on, it’s potential security vulnerabilities, and the feature set of more current versions.
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I was also diving into the bitcoin core issue and I’m glad to hear there will be an official knots release on the next StartOS version. I will consider the switch at that time as well. Thank you for staying on top of this and providing node runners this important choice! 
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And in the meantime, If the next version of Bitcoin Core contains changes you don’t agree with, just don’t update.
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if people are interested Bitcoin University on YouTube and Bitcoin Mechanic had good videos on it.
If that PR goes through, maybe it’s time for Start9 to switch to Knots as the supported and core as a community (or just not have Core anymore)
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Knots is not in Community because it’s unsupported, but rather because of the technical requirement that’s missing but detailed here.
It’ll be in the main registry with the next version of StartOS.
It’s also worth noting that being in the main registry does not mean we agree with the politics of any particular devs, it just means that lots of people use it, so we support it. Support as in offer technical support.