Re: Quick question: Choice of release
On Monday 16 August 2004 02:33 pm, Anders Breindahl wrote:
> I and a friend are playing with the idea of convincing our gymnasium
> to using Debian GNU/Linux as their main server OS.
>
> As it comes to this issue, which release we would want; stable,
> testing or unstable?
>
> Making the choice, it would matter that the focus is on reliability.
> We would want it to be absolutely reliable and secure. No security
> flaws would be accepted. On the other hand, we wouldn't want it to be
> outdated, so any performance-fixes are not included. What is the best
> compromise?
>
> Regards, skrewz a.k.a. Anders Breindahl.
I think Sarge is up to the task, set up your sources.list for Sarge not
testing. There are security updates for Sarge now. This is a bit of a
balance between utterly reliable (not a stable release yet) but current
versions of software.
--
Greg C. Madden
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