Mihamina RKTMB wrote:
1°) I use Debian over Ubuntu only for servers. I co-manage more or less 200 servers (6 persons team) Keeping "supported" would be a PITA with the 6 month release schedule.One could always advise to stay with LTS, but that would be equivalent to Debian.2°)I have to self package (for internal use) several pieces of software and I found Ubuntu introduces several changes in packaging I dont like. I'd rather stick with the bare http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
Sounds like my situation, but with a lot fewer servers. I'm still running Squeeze on a couple of machines - stability is fine.
I find that there are a few things I always have to install from source - the packaged versions are at best out-of-date, and sometimes simply don't work (but the latest source builds just fine on older releases of Debian - go figure).
But this does raise a question: Given that (IMHO) apt is by far Debian's best selling point.... If one is managing systems where a LOT (even most, or all) software is built from source - is Debian still the best distribution. Is there a better distro for managing source-based in installs from upstream (and I'm not talking Gentoo, where Portage is a packaging system for source code - I'm talking semi-automatic management and updates from upstream source. Any thoughts?
Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra