Another thing with debian is that your base install has a bash shell and not much else. Great for servers.
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:44, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:10, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > > [Re: Debian] > > Stable is renowned for being very stable. The only updates are to fix > > security issues; no new features are *ever* added to Stable after it has > > been released. > > I'm running Debian stable on about a dozen servers - everything is easy. > Updates are painless. > > We've solved some of the "stable != new features" by adding things like > mysql from backports.org ... > deb http://www.ecology.uni-kiel.de/mirrors/debian/backports.org/debian > woody mysql-dfsg > > Servers aren't supposed to be "interesting", they're supposed to be > "reliable". :-) > > -jim -- .''`. Paul William : :' : Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system
