[Techtalk] Using Debian Testing (Sarge) on production servers

[Michelle Murrain]

At 4:58 PM +1100 3/6/04, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
>On Saturday 06 March 2004 14:35, Mary wrote:
>>  In other words, unstable gets security updates earlier than testing
>>  because unstable is where new versions packages go first.
>
>Thus the advice I was given.
>
>Perhaps I should give a bit more info about what I'm doing.
>
>I have been following the 'Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO' and have been
>adapting it to work with Debian Sarge.
<snip>

As someone who  (in retrospect) mistakenly used Testing on production 
machines, I will say that I will never do it again. It is the old 
issue that you first raised: Stable is just too old. But the security 
issue, as well as the occasional fatal flaw in a package that makes 
it to testing, made me realize that testing is just too dangerous to 
use as a production platform.

I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to be moving to. I've got several 
RH 9 boxes now (which puts me in a different kind of bind). And I am 
actually trying to figure out what to use next. Mepis is tempting, as 
are some of the other debian based distros.
-- 
.Michelle

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