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[Craig Ringer]

Brad Campbell wrote:

> Debian backports security patches to guarantee that when you upgrade 
> that server 12,000km away remotely over a piece of wet string that your 
> application will not change its behaviour in any way, shape or form.
> Gentoo tends to fix security holes by moving to the latest upstream 
> package and thus not at all guaranteeing stable behaviour without having 
> to reconfigure things.
> 
> Different strokes for different folks I guess. Plus, when Debian says 
> *stable* they jolly well mean it.

Indeed. Despite my frustration with Debian in many ways, I still use it 
for the POST's web server (co-located at Indigo Networks) ... and have 
no intention of changing. You can't beat it for remote machines where 
stability is the #1 priority and you don't need up-to-date functionality.

Craig Ringer