On 8/2/07, John K Masters <johnmasters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I love Slackware but have eventually gone back to running my servers on > Debian stable. Most of the Debian derivatives base on unstable to get > the latest version of things but stable is rock solid and will never let > you down. The advantage of Debian over Slackware is the ease of > installation of new packages and updating the latest security patches. I'll have to disagree :} on the "new packages" part. While apt-get'ing security fixes may be easier than manually ftp'ing after having received the security alert ( I don't mind the mildly more involved approach), I have to say that I find trying to install packages that the maintainers didn't find necessary to update (and no, just because I want a newer version of postgres I don't necessarily want to dist-upgrade) I much prefer Slackware *because* it doesn't have any dependency checks. > Regards, John Cheers, Andrej ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
