Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 11497
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2003/12/17 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:11497 Activity:nil
12/17   I'm setting up a co-located server and just found out RedHat 9.0
        will be "end of life"d in April... will this be a problem/
        inconvenience? make more sense to go w/ debian instead? thanks
        \_ Not really.  Do you plan to upgrade to the kernel of the week or
           just run a stable system?
           \_ I think they'll stop releasing security updates after April, so
              that may be a problem.
        \_ consider Fedora http://fedora.redhat.com
        \_ run debian. keep up to date.
           \_ run gentoo, and keep more up to date. debian stable is, imho,
              ridiculously out of date.
              \_ In order to keep a gentoo based system up to date, it'll
                 have to spend most of its lifetime compiling and recompiling.
                 And I've seen very little performance boost.  You can always
                 run debian unstable or testing, or add apt sources to backports
                 for stable for newer packages.
                 - former gentoo user, now a debian fan-boy
                 \_ i use both debian and gentoo. debian's package system seems
                    rather more convoluted, and running unstable is umm, unstable,
                    while running testing is not so great for stability either.
                    anyway, if you have a decently fast machine, recompiling is
                    no problem, unless you're the kinda guy who must have every
                    single package offered, and keep every single one up to date.
                 \_ aren't stability and newness opposites?
                    \_ no.
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