Re: testing/sarge for production use
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:00:47AM -0800, snacktime wrote:
> Is this crazy or are others doing this also? From the open bug list
> it doesn't appear that there are many bugs related to x86 and the
> application that I use, which are mostly server apps and no desktop
> related stuff.
No. I think that sarge is stable enough for most situations. At the
MIT CSAIL lab where I'm a grad student, that's all we use (for linux
installations). Two of our group's cpu servers logged 150 days of
uptime before we had to reboot for a kernel upgrade. One thing I'd
recommend: on machines where stability is important, don't do
upgrade/dist-upgrade's until sarge has moved to stable. Oh, and make
sure your /etc/apt/sources.list specifies "sarge", not "testing."
Occasionally upgrade/dist-upgrade will break things, it's not
necessarily easy to revert to old (working) versions and a fix may not
appear for weeks or months.
> This seemed like a saner approach then running woody and compiling the
> applications I need newer versions of from source.
Yes. Definitely. Besides the fact that woody is a pain-in-the-ass to
install (I tried and failed every time!), it's extremely out-of-date
and requires a lot of hand-holding and care. Sarge just works.
Jason
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