[sclug] Spring cleaning

[Ian Michell]

Chris Aitken wrote:

>>>Well debian are currently offering (in various states):
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>>>Debian GNU/Linux
>>>Debian GNU/Hurd - essentially Mach
>>>Debian GNU/NetBSD
>>>Debian GNU/FreeBSD
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>>>So whatever kernel/base you choose, you still get the best of the debian
>>>world!
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>>>http://www.debian.org/ports/
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>>>ATEOTD, any *BSD or Linux distro will do what you want. I think
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>>you may get
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>>>alot more backup with Debian here, mainly because of the amount of users
>>>here. I'm biased towards debian, but have never used a *BSD. I
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>>have however
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>>>used alot of linux distros. For a mjor security issue, debian
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>>often patches
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>>>within half a day. a couple of days if it is a very minor one.
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>>>HTH
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>>>Chris
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>>Very true, just been reading up on it all, I am very tempted to play
>>with Debian/Hurd and Debian/NetBSD, methinks a VMWare session is in
>>progress this weekend! But I methinks that debian is looking more
>>attractive, I just need something that is stable, secure and moderatly
>>up to date, I kinda left debian because of this, but since this is not a
>>desktop machine, I think debian is the most likely candidate to find a
>>home in my network ;)
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>Don't forget that you can have a 'testing' version of debian on your server
>(if you want a PPTP vpn you'll need the testing version of pppd). It is soon
>to be made the stable version.
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>Or you can use backports.
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>Chris
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So... In order to use PPTP (I don't wanna! Honest! But it is gonna be 
the only way I will be able to connect to the company VPN, I want 
IPSEC!!!) I will need to use testing... Hmmmmmmm the major thing I am 
concerned about is security, but testing at least has a decent 
repository.... damnit! Oh well testing it is then...

Rgds

Ian