Re: What Dist for a servers

[linux-il]

Ben-Nes Michael wrote:


I'm leaning towards Debian at the moment -- it has a wide user base,
uses the great apt system (though Fedora can use it too, I guess), and
generates new security updates quickly.
Anyone can contradict that?
   

Isnt debian very slow in releasing updates for her stable tree ?
 

Not at all. It's declared policy states that security patches should be 
available within 48 hours.
Usually they are available in less than 24 hours.

See http://www.debian.org/security/

also im not relly familiur with debian,for example how much power i have in
selecting which php to use: version, flags, etc ...
 

You have all the power you want to choose each particular version you 
want, as long as
it's available in a .deb format. You can override dependencies if you 
REALLY insist on
breaking things, you can request particular versions, you can pin a 
version of a package so
it won't get updated come whatever.

--Amos

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