[Lancaster] Re: the kitchen network.

Rupert Levene r.levene at lancaster.ac.uk
Tue Jun 8 11:43:31 BST 2004


On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:36:16AM +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
> I'd probably lean more towards the majority of the software being
> from the stable tree for the server, I needed quite a bit of the
> software in the testing tree for the box I have at uni so I
> installed that instead.
> 
> Sarge isn't really that big a jump, Debian seems more of a rolling
> distribution in which things are only incorporated into the testing
> tree once quite strict criteria are reached and only make it into
> the stable branch once extremely stable.

One unfortunate side-effect of this is that sarge packages do not get
timely security fixes, unlike stable. An all-woody server is the way
to go IMO.

Rupert



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