<quote who="Michael Lake"> > If I can choose between a Debian stable and a Debian testing what should I > run? Is testing likely to break after an 'apt-get upgrade'? Anyone have > experience and advice from running a server rather than a home setup? > There would be few applications installed as it's a server. Mainly > apache-perl, mysql and perl and a dozen perl modules.
Perhaps I am a conservative old bastard [1], but I run servers on stable, and think anyone who does otherwise is smoking the wrong herbs. However, I do use backports of important software when there is a strong requirement. Generally I will only use backports made by the package maintainer, or make my own. It's reasonably straight-forward most of the time. You should be fine with all of your software requirements, as long as you're happy with the version of Perl in woody. :-) - Jeff [1] I have never been called a conservative old bastard, fwiw. -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ "The Vines are the latest pretenders to the thrown." - Vines review by liv4now.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
