> Yes, it is for Squeeze, if you want the latest bugfixes and security > updates you should seriously consider running debian-testing instead > of stable. No, thanks. I loaded "Squeeze" on another non-RAID workstation in order to alleviate a kernel bug causing problems with a 3G wireless modem. It was quite unstable, and caused a number of issues, most problematically with the fact the distro assumes the system is not headless and would lock up tight on boot if no monitor is present. All of the RAID systems are headless. More importantly, stability is far and away the absolutely most important requirement for these servers. New features I can live without. Bug fixes I don't need unless they directly affect the functioning of the system, which is highly focussed. These systems have a handful of very basic, very mature apps. They run NTP, FTP, SSH, rsync, NUT, SMART, SAMBA, NFS, and KDE. One of them also runs Galleon, pyTivo, TyTool under wine, and openvpn server. That's it. > Stable is reserved for 'mature' features. Testing, as far > as I'm aware, will almost never (and should never if you are paying > attention) cause data-loss, but might occasionally get in to a > situation where something breaks; mostly just during upgrades (but > then that's true of any upgrade). It's true no data was lost, but then it's a little difficult to lose data if the system hangs hard on boot. I had to yank most of the guts out of the system to get it stable. That, plus the new version of KDE really sucks badly, and I could not get Kpackage to work properly at all. It also did something really goofy to pppd, but I was able to work around it by re-trying the pppd launch repeatedly on boot until it works. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
