Debian Administration

I use stable.
I have used all before... BO REX BUZZ; and others RedHat SUSE Mandriva(drake) etc.
But since Potato I have been only with Debian stable.
I like having a system which does not crash or slow down.
It may not be cutting edge, but it works well.
Seldom do I need to look at third party apps.
Testing sometimes crashes, Stable is like 99.9999% uptime.

I've still got a sarge MySQL server that I really want to upgrade soon. Of course, the longer I wait, the harder it gets. As it is, I'm still trying to decide if I should schedule one longer outage and upgrade to etch and lenny all at once, or if I should get the system upgraded to etch, then schedule a second outage at a later date for the lenny upgrade. I'm sort of leaning toward the former.

I discovered a random woody box on my network not too long ago. I pulled its plug pretty quickly.

I started with a Woody desktop system and a Sarge server. Sarge took longer to arrived than I expected, so what I thought would be a few months on testing turned out to be quite a lot longer. However for all it's stresses, Sarge was more usable in testing than Woody was even though it was stable.

Since then I run my home server and family desktop systems as stable and my desktop as testing. I keep a SID system under VirtualBox for testing purposes.

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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam

Does "use" mean "ever used" or "still use"? If "still use", etch; if "ever used", buzz.

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We have software written by a third party that only compiles under Etch. Yes, we could look into fixing that :-)

Our hosting provider recently removed support for Etch and provided us with a fresh Lenny install ... without much warning :-(

Happily, the code runs well in an Etch chroot. We'll probably end up keeping it for as long as we can support the code under whatever kernel is present behind the chroot ... which could be a long time!

I bought the commercial package Corel Linux. It had a printed manual and menus for alot of otherwise confusing arcana. I believe it was based on Potato.

I use debian stable - got rid of windows (now free...) year & half ago.

Where's sid?