Re: what Linux to run

Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:55:48 +1300

    On 03/03/12 23:33, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:

       Lørdag 3. mars 2012 01.43.29 skrev Gavin Flower :

        I think if you are going to select a member of the Debian family, I
would strongly recommend Debian itself. I have the impression that the
Debian community is more serious about quality than Canonical (the
company behind Ubuntu).

      I haven't run Debian for ten years, when I had a headless old PC running with 
a LAMP stack. Since I discovered Gentoo, that has been my preferred distro. 
However, I'm currently in the process of setting up a dedicated Web server 
with Debian as it may one day be another person's responsibility to admin this 
box, and I would consider it cruel to leave a Gentoo box to anyone but the 
most devoted Linux fans.

My current gripe is this: The «stable» version of Postgres on Debian is 8.4. 
In order to install 9.1, I added this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

Then I did an apt-get update and 

apt-get install postgresql-9.1 postgresql-client-9.1

Finally I commented out the added line of /etc/apt/sources.list.

This seems a rather roundabout way, is there a better one?

regards, Leif

    To be honest I got
      into
      Linux in 1994 when a friend set me up with Debian, the first
      distribution I installed myself was Red Hat.  Though I had
      previous experience with mainframes and minicomputers, starting in
      the mid 1970's - COBOL & FORTRAN era.  (There is a distant
      possibility I may get back into FORTRAN, as that is run on the
      HPC's at the University where I now work!!!).

      My knowledge of
      Debian is via friend's (an extremely competent and experienced
      Unix
      guy who got me into Linux & who still runs Debian) comments
      and
      what I've noticed on the web.  For a Desktop development machine,
      I currently prefer Fedora, but for a server I need to be more
      conservative.  One place I worked used Ubuntu, but I quickly
      switched my machine to Fedora, when I found Ubuntu lacked the
      desktop things I relied on!

    So I would interested
      in the answers, also I would need to be able to install JDK7.

    Cheers,

      Gavin