[Techtalk] distro for production server

Travis Casey efindel at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 17 10:34:30 EST 2005


On Oct 14, 2005, at 7:54 PM, Michelle Murrain wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Elwing wrote:

>> 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 :)
>
> I third Debian stable. That's the distro I always used for headless  
> servers. Can't complain at all.

I'll fourth it, and point out that if you really need a newer version  
of an individual package than Debian Stable provides, you can get it  
from backports.org.

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