On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:07:56AM -0400, JC wrote: > RedHat has announced that it will no longer be providing (free) errata > support for RH9 ( http://news.osdir.com/article323.html ) Fedora seems a > little too bleeding edge for my tastes... I was thinking about Debian... My > questions to the list are these: > > 1.) What would you suggest migrating to?
If you're happy with RH9, have a look at fedoralegacy to get security updates for it. > 2.) What caveats should I know about with Debian? I know there were quite a > few with RH, I.E. UTF-8 screwing everything and it's brother up with perl, > etc, etc... Debian Stable still being resolutely perl 5.6.1, you won't have that :) (Hey .. it's _stable_ !) I'm running SA plus various other tools on it here and they're rock solid. A number of nice prople make latest backports of useful things available on unofficial repositories, so you aren't _entirely_ stuck in May 2002 - www.backports.org is where I get most of mine from. Debian Testing should not be run on the Internet (no ssecurity fixes), whilst Unstable can be, but really needs you to have Copious Spare Time ... it's rarely actually unstable, it just gets a lot of updates. > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > + If the only tool you've got is an + > + axe, every problem looks like fun! + > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ObWarlord: I just hope your problem is never a sore toe. ;) Nick
