Re: Best suiting OS

Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 12:07 +0200, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote:
>> Go for Debian:
>> * It is a free community, very active.
>
> Well, we need to state that this is not a unique feature.
>
>> * It is guaranteed to be upgradable.
>
> Depends. I had lots of issues with upgrade process in the past -- but
> yeah, it is much better than most distros.
>
>> * Very easy to administrate via apt-get.
>
> Right. apt is better than yum (in terms of speed).
>
>> Choose Debian SID or testing, which will provide the latest fixes.
>
> One thing that I don't like about Debian is their update policy.
>
> If upstream is releasing a security update, I'd like to be able to find
> new packages as upstream announces updated sets. Yes, I'm talking about
> PostgreSQL here.

This is exactly what Debian does for a while now(at least for PostgreSQL)..
Ie.: Debian Etch aka  has 8.1.18 and Debian Lenny has 8.3.8...


Stefan