Mihamina RKTMB wrote:
1°)
I use Debian over Ubuntu only for servers.
I co-manage more or less 200 servers (6 persons team)
Keeping "supported" would be a PITA with the 6 month release schedule.
One could always advise to stay with LTS, but that would be equivalent
to Debian.
2°)
I have to self package (for internal use) several pieces of software
and I found Ubuntu introduces several changes in packaging I dont
like. I'd rather stick with the bare
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
Sounds like my situation, but with a lot fewer servers. I'm still
running Squeeze on a couple of machines - stability is fine.
I find that there are a few things I always have to install from source
- the packaged versions are at best out-of-date, and sometimes simply
don't work (but the latest source builds just fine on older releases of
Debian - go figure).
But this does raise a question: Given that (IMHO) apt is by far Debian's
best selling point.... If one is managing systems where a LOT (even
most, or all) software is built from source - is Debian still the best
distribution. Is there a better distro for managing source-based in
installs from upstream (and I'm not talking Gentoo, where Portage is a
packaging system for source code - I'm talking semi-automatic management
and updates from upstream source. Any thoughts?
Miles Fidelman
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