On Tuesday 09 Sep 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 21:27:19 Karanbir Singh wrote: > [snip] > BTW, in a typical SOHO environment or even large companies which use > Linux boxes for specific uses like mail servers, database servers, > etc., what % of packages are actually redone? In most cases, only the > ones specific to the use of the box are actually looked at carefully > and configured appropriately. Most organizations out there cannot > afford to have a separate local branch of packages where > vendor/security changes are merged and maintained separately.
I'm running at least 20 Internet-connected Debian servers for various clients, running various applications from Flash and PHP and intensive MySQL based websites to mail servers to blogs to help desk systems, and AFAIR I don't have a single non-distribution or even self-compiled package on any of these systems. Oh wait, there's some flash creation crapola I had to download (after giving my client dire warnings) and alien from RPM for one of the sites. OK, one package. But in general I agree, unless your needs are extremely specific you probably don't need to go beyond your distribution repository, specially if that distribution happens to be Debian. I have a lot of respect for CentOS, and I'd happily at least consider for servers if the range of available packages wasn't limited (well, compared to Debian). Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
