В 13:28 +0200 на 11.10.2012 (чт), [email protected] написа: > > Alright, I have finished my bachelor's thesis. Very surprisingly my (sucky) > thesis about Sage as a replacement for Matlab in higher education rose > interest in the teachers on my school.
Well done! You might have heard about it, but just FYI, Octave is another Free Software alternative to Matlab. It missed some functionality few years ago, but I've personally used it to do many projects in my university years. > -Debian: Either stable or testing. > The bad thing about stable is that it will > be soon replaced with current testing version and hence not supported There is always upgrade. You edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace the old stable release name with the new one. If "stable" is used instead of release name transition would probably be transparent. I do not remember did I encounter new stable release while I was on Debian. Next: sudo aptitude safe-upgrade sudo aptitude full-upgrade Of course it could break bad, but for that you should prepare a backup. > The bad thing about testing version is that it > is testing version and possibly not so secure. Not so sure about that. There are constant updates and security updates as well as far as I remember. I've spent almost two years on testing +unstable on a desktop machine and it broke badly only once. I think I've used testing for a server available on the Internet. If it is going to be stable soon, then I would expect it to have minor issues or no issues at all. Debian after all has very long cycle for marking something stable. > > -Ubuntu: Not an option for me for philosophical and technical reasons. I'm amazed Trisquel is relatively stable while it is based on Ubuntu. > Trisquel: Toutatis is the only version of Trisquel to consider. > However, Toutatis is not ready yet, > and even though there might be no differences between packages on the server > installation without X-server between Toutatis and ubuntu LTS, is it too > risky to make the server of Toutatis at this point? Is there plans to support > > Toutatis for the same time as curernt Ubuntu LTS is to be supported? There is always upgrade. As in the Debian case I've mentioned above. A week or so ago I've upgraded a server from Taranis to Brigantia. Only two packages required hacking of dpk scripts to install and unblock the migration process. There were bug reports about those exact packages with proposed solutions. If I were you I would either install Brigantia and upgrade to Toutatis when released or install Toutatis and upgrade to the next release when available. And keep upgrading to every future available release. This theoretically should provide smooth transition and no breaking like in my case from Taranis to Brigantia.
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