[Techtalk] distro for production server

[Raquel Rice]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:46:08 -0700
Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:

> Hi Experts,
> 
> I know we've had the which-distro discussion many times, but
> they've  mostly been aimed at best for newbies, or best for
> desktop use.  Which  distro would you recommend for a headless
> production server running  webapps written in Java?
> 
> Rachel

I'm certainly no expert, but I do run servers.  I use, and
appreciate, Debian.  It just works and doesn't break, even when
upgrading to a new version or upgrading the kernel.  In fact, it's
kind of boring because there aren't emergencies where I have to do
an all-nighter trying to fix something.

I use Debian stable, which is currently Sarge.  Some people don't
like Debian stable because it's not the latest, greatest, hottest,
but what do I want with all that on a server?  What I care about is
that it works.

-- 
Raquel
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