On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:01:24 -0500 Larry Gilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running Postfix with SA, Procmail, and Webmin on Red Hat 8.0. I > want to move away from RH and am soliciting opinions. <snip> Well, you've heard the Slackware/FreeBSD side from Rick, so I'll represent Debian. :-) I got tired of the dependency nightmares I had with rpms, so I switched to Debian and never regretted it. Their upgrade/update utility (apt) is very handy. From what I've seen, they're usually one of the first distros to release security updates when holes are discovered. If you want bleeding edge hardware and graphics and GUIs, stable can be fairly outdated, but I haven't found a reason to be unsatisfied with stable for server purposes. Their "stable" release currently has php 4.1.2, mysql 3.23.49 and apache 1.3.26. However, even if stable is too old, you can upgrade select packages from their "testing" or even "unstable" releases without having to upgrade everything, using their "apt pinning" feature. Alternatively, there are tools to allow you to upgrade software by compiling your own from tarball and then creating a "dummy" package so that the package manager still knows the dependencies for program xyz are installed. You can pretty much do any combination of packages that you need for your requirements while still taking advantage of the package managers features. I find it very flexible, yet very powerful. Just my $0.02 :-) Jacob ----- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 C:\WINDOWS\RUN C:\WINDOWS\CRASH C:\ME\FDISK /usr/src/linux
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