On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 22:39 -0600, Tim Kelley wrote: --snip-- > If you think testing or unstable is suitable for production systems you are > one of > > 1. an idiot > 2. have very limited needs/no experience > 3. talking out of your ass > 4. have no concept of what it means to be responsible for others' work Thanks for the kind words. :) My comment regarding the nuclear defense grid was a reference to mission critical systems. If production DEPENDS on a server being up no matter what, then absolutely, you should be running Woody. However, since the majority of the work that I do is IT outsourcing for companies, most of the servers that we put together are for internal or non-mission critical external applications. In these cases, running Sid is perfectly acceptable and preferable, since our customers tend to be more interested in having better features available and they can survive if they go without email for 3 hours in a year. And having 19 Sid servers in our data center and another 68 at customer sites with no major problems in nearly 4 years should go a ways towards illustrating that. But I do absolutely agree that for mission critical systems, stable should be the only real choice. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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