[Lancaster] Re: the kitchen network.

[Ken Hough]

Rupert Levene wrote:
> 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
>
I take that 'sarge' is an 'unstable' branch. You are suggesting that we 
go far an old and in many aspects an outdated distro?

Ken Hough


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