[Techtalk] distro for production server

[Elwing]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Raquel Rice wrote:

>
> 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.

I second Debian stable as a server.  The Debian group works *very*  
hard to make sure that changes to stable do not break anything else  
in stable.  And it still gets security updates :)

Elwing