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From: Wanna-Be Sys Admin on 5 Dec 2009 18:51
John Hasler wrote:

> Wanna-Be Sys Admin writes:
>> ...I have found that a lot of softwares just don't care about things
>> like RHEL and CentOS and sometimes have better support for Debian or
>> Fedora or Gentoo, which is just really annoying because those aren't
>> all considered so edge.
>
> It doesn't get much more "edge" than Debian/Unstable.

I was referring to stable versions of Debian. I.e., pre-Lenny, even.
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From: John Hasler on 5 Dec 2009 19:09
Wanna-Be Sys Admin writes:
> I was referring to stable versions of Debian. I.e., pre-Lenny, even.

If you want to be on the bleeding edge perhaps you should give
Debian/Unstable ("Sid") a try. "Unstable" means constantly changing,
not crashing. "Stable" means unchanging except for security patches.
It is, of course, not possible to be on the leading edge without
changing. I run Sid on all of my machines and find it quite reliable.
You wouldn't want it on a server at a remote site, but it's fine for the
desktop.

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From: Wanna-Be Sys Admin on 6 Dec 2009 19:28
John Hasler wrote:

> Wanna-Be Sys Admin writes:
>> I was referring to stable versions of Debian. I.e., pre-Lenny, even.
>
> If you want to be on the bleeding edge perhaps you should give
> Debian/Unstable ("Sid") a try.
>

I don't want to be on the bleeding edge. Never would, personally. I do
sometimes design new programs to be able to use new features that
aren't yet considered stable on the version, but I just wait to enable
them and use them once it's just considered stable. I'm sure people
have reasons for cutting edge, but I've not personally ever had a
reason, since anything I want or need to do doesn't require it. I'm
thankful for the people that are willing though.
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From: Greg Russell on 7 Dec 2009 13:21
"Wanna-Be Sys Admin" <sysadmin(a)example.com> wrote in message
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> John Hasler wrote:
>> If you want to be on the bleeding edge perhaps you should give
>> Debian/Unstable ("Sid") a try.
>
> I don't want to be on the bleeding edge. Never would, personally. I do
> sometimes design new programs to be able to use new features that
> aren't yet considered stable on the version, but I just wait to enable
> them and use them once it's just considered stable. I'm sure people
> have reasons for cutting edge, but I've not personally ever had a
> reason, since anything I want or need to do doesn't require it. I'm
> thankful for the people that are willing though.

Same here, which is why we use CentOS. It was surprising to find a package
for the distro (from atrpms) that required newer glibc than the base had
available.


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