On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:50:52PM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alon Weinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ben-Nes Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:33 PM > Subject: Re: What Dist for a servers > > > > 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 ?
Debian release almost no updates to stable, only bug fixes (and usually after some time only security-related ones). In that, they are quite fast - I guess more-or-less as other distros. > > also im not relly familiur with debian,for example how much power i have in > selecting which php to use: version, flags, etc ... Debian has: In stable - php3 (3.0.18), php4 (4.1.2). In unstable - php3 (3.0.18), php4 (4.3.3). If by flags you mean 'things you usually change only during compilation' then of course you don't have control over that, unless you compile by yourself. I don't think other distros are different - actually, Debian does have such packages, which I think other distros don't, but not php. E.g. they have emacs21-nox and emacs21, ickle and ickle-gnome, various versions of vim, libapache-mod-acct-mysql and libapache-mod-acct-pgsql, libsdl1.2debian-all and libsdl1.2debian-arts and libsdl1.2debian-esd and libsdl1.2debian-oss, etc. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
