Re: debian as a sever OS
On Thursday 20 April 2006 02:23, Deephay wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I am wondering that if it is safe to using the testing distro (now
> Etch) as the server's OS.
> Any comment is appreciated very much.
> thx!
>
> Deepahy
I have a small business and if my servers are down, I'm not making
money.
It's up to you, of course, but the ONLY version of ANY distro I trust on
my servers is Debian Stable. I *know* that, except for one bug with
aptitude and grub menus, that if I use "aptitude upgrade" that my
servers will keep working. That is not always true with Testing. You
can do an aptitude upgrade or apt-get upgrade with Testing and, even if
bugs are not listed, you could still end up with important programs not
working.
In most cases, you can get the functions most systems need from Stable.
Is the chance of an important function on your server not working worth
the features not yet in Stable?
Like I said, it's your choice, but I'm not going to let my clients ever
see me with a moment of downtime that I can prevent. You may feel
otherwise.
Just my pigheaded, arrogant, self-righteous comments.
Hal
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