On 8/27/07, Jared Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, I use CentOS (when I don't care about support) or RHEL (when > support is important to me) as my preferred server distribution, simply > because they guarantee to have *years* worth (at least five years!) of > security updates, even if I choose not to upgrade to the latest > distribution. (Debian has a similar policy, although I'm not sure the > exact length of time.)
Debian usually provides regular updates until next major release release, and security updates within year after next major release. Plus a really good thing is that major releases come out with interval of 2 til 5 years - so they are much better tested than all the other distributions (with release cycle of half year). Also upgrade to next version is usually painless (i have seen some troubles with Debian's fork project - Ubuntu). So, if you are into long-term stability and regular updates - Debian have it. However for desktop i prefer Gentoo. It also have very good policy about updates - you don't have to worry much about them when you find right tools. But i don't want my servers to be busy with regular compiling - so servers are Debian. Regards, Atis -- Atis Lezdins, IT Responsible of BEST Riga, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 142239285 Skype: atis.lezdins Cell Phone: +371 28806004 [Tele2, Latvia] Work phone: +1 800 7502835 [Toll free, USA] ?BEST? -> www.BEST.eu.org _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
