Words Re: Which Distro for learning linux and server

2009-08-16 Thread Craig Falconer

steve wrote, On 14/08/09 18:18:

With risk in mind, it's best to use software certified* for a specific
os, and to do that most simply, it's best to stay in the mainline, which
really is RH/CentOS 5.3 or debian lenny.




*This is a very loose definition of the word, where package releases are
considered certified. Often the source release from the author is
better, but then you've got the extra headache of completely testing it
yourself. At least if debian/RH release a package, it's been pretty
thoroughly tested. I know it's the wrong word, but I couldn't think of
the right one (:


Accepted?

Verified / validated?

That old Debian standard stable, sometimes said as known-stable or 
proved stable


Not stepping outside the package management framework



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Craig Falconer



Re: Words Re: Which Distro for learning linux and server

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Hill
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Craig Falconer wrote:
 steve wrote, On 14/08/09 18:18:
 With risk in mind, it's best to use software certified* for a
 specific
 os, and to do that most simply, it's best to stay in the mainline,
 which
 really is RH/CentOS 5.3 or debian lenny.


 *This is a very loose definition of the word, where package
 releases are
 considered certified. Often the source release from the author is
 better, but then you've got the extra headache of completely
 testing it
 yourself. At least if debian/RH release a package, it's been pretty
 thoroughly tested. I know it's the wrong word, but I couldn't think of
 the right one (:

 Accepted?

 Verified / validated?

 That old Debian standard stable, sometimes said as known-stable
 or proved stable

 Not stepping outside the package management framework



That reminds me of that time when they broke GnuPG, making it certified

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for i  in [1, 12, 9, 5, 13, 0, 4, 3, 5, 0, 0, 8, 11, 10, 7, 11, 9, 4,
9, 13, 6, 4, 9, 2] ] )

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