David Z Maze wrote: > Philip Ross writes: > > I am looking to migrate a few Red Hat boxes to Debian in the next > > month or two and am currently wondering whether to install woody or > > sarge. You did not say but are those servers or desktops? Desktop users tend to be brutal. They want the latest bright object to swing by their field of view. They think a week is a long time to wait for something. They complain forever about something if it is broken. If you only have two desktop users then you will be able to convince them that stable is a good thing. I would have my mom run stable. But if you have a hundred (or several hundred) users then you won't be able to politic that successfully. Many of them are also very sharp hackers too. They will want the latest xine or something. I routinely have users that spin their desktop to unstable, and then complain that something is broken there! I just expect that. And laugh at them. Bwahawha... :-) Who are your users? Servers on the other hand are different. Debian stable is a perfect fit for them. Stable has everything they need. Rock solid. Security updates. It is a beautiful thing. (Yes, I admit that I took my servers to LaMont's latest bind9 and postfix backports. But I know those services very well personally too.) Servers to me mean DNS, NTP, NIS/YP, SMTP, etc. But servers might mean defect trackers, gforge/sourceforge style web environments, other things. Stable is not up to handling gforge at the moment. Just an example that one person's idea of server is different from another person's idea. What is yours? > If you're new to Debian, I'd strongly suggest starting with the stable > distribution (so, in this case, woody); if you decide it's too stale > for you, you can augment it with backports or decide to upgrade to > testing or unstable later. If you decide that testing is too broken > for you right now, it's very hard to go back to stable. And let me agree with everything David said. This is exactly my strategy for the machines I support. Bob
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