[CS-FSLUG] OpenSolaris Users?
Timothy Butler
tbutler at ofb.biz
Fri Dec 26 20:40:25 CST 2008
>
> This is what has pushed me more toward Debian. They support the
> software for a long time, and you can just enable the Security
> repositories to only get bug fixes and security updates without all
> the
> other updates.
Do they do security backports? That's the big deal, in my estimation.
When upstream quits doing pure security updates for a given package,
RH continues to make sure that security updates in later major/minor
releases get backported to the distro's major/minor version.
> They also offer a MUCH better upgrade path between
> releases than RH/CentOS.
Can't say I've attempted a upgrade on RHEL. I ran my last RHEL server
on one release until it was time to retire it -- that works with a 7
year support cycle. I kept the server for 4. I have at least four
years until my current RHEL release EOLs, so no worries again... :-)
Debian also isn't very well supported by cPanel, which takes it out
of consideration for me as a web hosting environment. I like Debian
though, no doubt about it.
-Tim
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