On 2008-02-27T08:46:23+0800, hhding wrote: > why debian? > why centos? > > It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. > But managers want run centos instead.
Installers are different and both work fine here. Debian's package managers (aptitude, apt-get) are much better than yum as found in CentOS-4 (this is comparing current stable against one major version older than current). yum and up2date apparently do not mix. For instance after adding a 2nd archive I was not able to figure out, for a given installed package, which archive it came from. Debian repository has more stuff than CentOS, but 3rd party often make rpms available as the only option besides source. I tried installing nagios which is not in the official repository, and ended up having to add a whole other repository to the list to resolve dependencies. Ton of packages were upgraded before I figured out there was a add-on package to yum that gives a simplistic version of pinning. I trust the timely security update process that Debian uses (emails, packages etc). Something similar was not apparent to me when I looked for at the CentOS web site (please look yourself, maybe I am just not finding it). The only reason that CentOS was installed here in order to mirror our production environment which use RH. As others have said I would not sweat it. /Allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
