Re: Best suiting OS

Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(at)dalibo(dot)com> writes:
>> If you want the latest and greatest, then you can use Debian testing.
>
> testing and sid are usually the same with a 15 days delay.

And receive no out-of-band security updates, so you keep the holes for
3 days when lucky, and 10 to 15 days otherwise, when choosing
testing. So consider stable first, and if you like to be in danger every
time you dist-upgrade while *having* to do it each and every day, sid is
for your production servers.

> I strongly suggets to have a debian lenny and to backport newer packages if
> really required (like postgres 8.4). Debian come with good tools to achieve
> that (and there is debian-backport repository, sure)

stable + backports + volatile (when it makes sense) is a perfect choice :)
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