I used to agree, but after the couple of weeks I've had trying to get certain things (maia mailguard, web stuff using PEAR, web stuff using freetype, etc) I have decided that Debian needs to get with the program a bit more as far as up-to-date releases are concerned. A server is only as good as the applications you need to serve, and if they won't work due to out of date libraries, ancient versions of php, poorly packaged PEAR, whatever...then it's not a very good server platform. I was discussing this with Craig at work, and his idea is that perhaps Debian should stop trying to run on so many platforms, and instead focus on what Linux was originally intended to be - a Free Unix-alike on x86. x86 is what the majority of linux users run after all. Alternatively, perhaps they could take a leaf out of the BSDers book, and have platform tiers, with certain platforms being more up-to-date than others. Any alternative suggestions for fixing this problem? G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis(a)gmx.de> To: <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:41 AM Subject: Re: [wlug] [Fwd: End of Life for Red Hat Linux 9]
* Kyle Carter <kyle(a)feet.net.nz> [2004-04-03 15:16]:
id love to use debian if it wasnt so last year (if not even older) maybe this is my chance to find something else.
On a server, this matters.. why? The security updates are very current, even if the version numbers are not. I wouldn't run Debian on a desktop, but for servers it's my #1 choice by far.
-- Regards, Aristotle
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