out of the red hat boat!

2004-07-22 Thread Miki Lewinger
Hi. It seems I'm ready for the transition to another distro after a couple of years unable to upgrade any redhat installation beyond single cases of success. So I'm either for debian or mandrake, and as I understand it both have excellent capabilities for upgrading my base system - but what is

Re: out of the red hat boat!

2004-07-22 Thread Gal Gur-Arie
D e b i a n :-) Miki Lewinger wrote: Hi. It seems I'm ready for the transition to another distro after a couple of years unable to upgrade any redhat installation beyond single cases of success. So I'm either for debian or mandrake, and as I understand it both have excellent capabilities for

Re: out of the red hat boat!

2004-07-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gal Gur-Arie wrote: D e b i a n :-) It's nice to see we can count on the Linux-IL population to provide timely, professional and *reasoned* responses to delicate emotional questions. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. http://www.lingnu.com/

Re: out of the red hat boat!

2004-07-22 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
: Miki Lewinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Israeli Linux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:17 AM Subject: out of the red hat boat! Hi. It seems I'm ready for the transition to another distro after a couple of years unable to upgrade any redhat installation beyond single

Re: out of the red hat boat!

2004-07-22 Thread Gal Gur-Arie
Shachar, Yes - my answer wasn't really detailed, but in this case i think that Debian is a synonym to all he was asking for: secure patching policy/practice and as I remember your lecture from last year August Penguin - I am sure you agree with me. Cheers, Gal Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gal

Re: out of the red hat boat!

2004-07-22 Thread Ira Abramov
Bom Dia, Miki! Todu bem? Quoting Ben-Nes Michael, from the post of Thu, 22 Jul: If you go for Debian use the testing branch ( Sarge ) and not the stable ( woody ), I mistakly went for woody and now I need lots of backports. a. I'm a bit conservative. for production servers I still stick to

Re: out of the red hat boat!

2004-07-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: Bom Dia, Miki! Todu bem? Quoting Ben-Nes Michael, from the post of Thu, 22 Jul: If you go for Debian use the testing branch ( Sarge ) and not the stable ( woody ), I mistakly went for woody and now I need lots of backports. Well, you can rectify that pretty easily.