Re: debian as a sever OS
Hal, thx very much for your comment!
Deephay
On 4/20/06, Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote:
> 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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