Re: Best suiting OS

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> 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...

"Debian Etch aka oldstable" and Debian Lenny (the current release)...


Stefan