Re: [ossig] Enterprise Linux: UserLinux, Debian

[Kenneth Wong <kenneth.wong@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:42:27 +0800, Hong-Yee Seah 
> Err.... I thought the origin of this thread is about desktop.  

Nah. It mutated by then.  Mukhsein Johari 	
<pythonium@yahoo.com> wrote about distrowatch:
> I just find it weird that a distro whose "stable"
> release is consistently about 2-3 years old (more?),
> could be so popular.

Whereupon you replied:
> Nobody really run "stable" debian.

In the desktop context, yeah, I wouldn't run stable there either.
Definitely agree with you on that. Can't live without kontact, kopete,
OOo 1.1.2, etc. However, debian 'stable' is strong on the server side,
accounting for quite some of those numbers on distrowatch.

> I would agree debian stable is great for server. However, don't we
> normally  customize our server a little and run things that are not out
> of the stable branch? 

Sure you do. But what do you use as the base? The beauty of debian
stable is you can use everything from the stable tree except for a
single package (spamassassin, clamav, samba, etc). Then you have all
the stability and security of stable, with the critical new
functionality that you need.

Few people use pure debian stable, but then again, a lot of people
customize their RHEL, SuSE servers, etc. That's why sysadmins are paid
the big bucks :) (semi-sarcasm there)

Ken


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