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</head><BODY BGCOLOR="#CED1E1" ><div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">funny, I thought Gentoo was on the bleeding edge, and Debian was behind CentOS....  guess it is a matter of opinion.<br /><br /></span></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:45:38PM -0600, Jonn R Taylor wrote:</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> The other thing with CentOS vs Debian is that CentOS packages do</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> not change every month or so. Debain seems to a little more on</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> the bleeding edge of this, which is not the best thing for a</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> production system. It is totally person preference and nothing</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> else.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> What Debian?</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">></SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> Debian has the Stable distribution that has the same policy as</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> RHEL/CentOS: critical bugfixes only (security updates are such bug</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> fixes) with every attempt made to minimize impact on system.</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">></SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> Now if you're using a non-stable Debian version for production,</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> this stability is never guaranteed.</SPAN></div>
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