[LBo] best distro for a server install

[Billy Pollifrone]

On Friday 02 November 2007 10:58:00 Tim George wrote:

> With Debian the main issue is that the testing distribution receives
> too many patches to use on a server, and the stable distro only gets
> security updates, so if a really useful feature is introduced in
> Apache, you won't get to use it unless you roll your own.

I'd use Debian on a server, but I wouldn't go any higher than stable. A newer 
version of any application shouldn't be put on a server (other than security 
fixes) until it has been deemed stable anyway. You'd use a testing box for 
that.

Just because Debian has APT does not mean that software can't be installed 
from newer sources as Slackware does. It just means you have to manually 
satisfy the dependencies as Slackware would require you to do.

- Billy

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