I'm going to be building a new webserver soon to replace my old, weary AMD K6-2 one. My current server runs debian, and I'm pretty pleased with how that works, so I was planning on using either the latest Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS (Dapper Drake, I think?) on the new one. I'd like to go with one of those options for two reasons; first, I don't have physical access to the hosting location very often which makes a real upgrade hard (at least, as far as I know how to do them), and second, I just don't like upgrading my servers very often, beyond updating packages for security/bugfix purposes.
However, there are a couple of cases where I want to use a package that has been released for a later version of Ubuntu, or for Debian testing (I'm specifically thinking of the xcache package (PHP opcode cache), which is packaged for later releases). Is it possible/advisable to do this? Any recommendations for handling this sort of situation? Or would biting the bullet and running Debian testing or a later Ubuntu release work okay for this situation? Any general recommendations on the Debian vs. Ubuntu as a server OS, while I'm at it? Thanks in advance! -- Nathaniel Price "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?" -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
