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Wed, 22 Oct 2003
Redhat 9? Just say no.
I just read Don Park's evaluation of Red Hat 9. This jives with what I heard at last night's SeaJUG meeting, too. Mark Ashworth, the speaker last night, was running Suse, but he mentioned that more and more of his friends are running Debian. I run Debian for the package quality, not the politics, but it is true that there's no company behind Debian that will suddenly change the nature of the distribution.
The uptime on the machine that is {www,mail}.sauria.com is 271 days. It would have been longer, but I had to replace the UPS. This machine is regularly updated to Debian unstable. If you are less adventurous, you could set your apt sources list to use testing.
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Though, if it is a server or any other important system, you probably shouldn't track the Debian 'testing' branch. Unless I'm mistaken, 'testing' isn't supported for security patches, meaning they may take ages to be released compared to 'stable', or may not ever be released.
Posted by Dave Hill at Wed Oct 22 17:28:08 2003
Posted by Dave Hill at Wed Oct 22 17:28:08 2003
Packages from unstable that are good for 7 days go into testing, so there's a 7 day window. My experience with unstable is that security fixes go in almost simultaneously, at least for the packages that I care about (and have seen advisories for).
Posted by Ted Leung at Wed Oct 22 17:33:42 2003
Posted by Ted Leung at Wed Oct 22 17:33:42 2003
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