Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 [LWN.net]

Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Feb 27, 2008 22:46 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 by emk
Parent article: Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

> because they release updates twice a year

I follow Debian Lenny/Sid on my stuff and I get updates all year long. :)

2.4.26 kernel, Gnome 2.20, xorg 7.3 and all that happy stuff.
The trick is, for me at least, to enable both lenny and sid in my sources.list then use
apt_preferences to set the priority for Lenny. Then I install stuff from sid when I feel like
it..

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Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Feb 28, 2008 10:51 UTC (Thu) by errare_est (guest, #14275) [Link]

I do run debian/(unstable|sid) on my workstation, but having that on a production server is
too risky: I love my weekends.

Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Mar 1, 2008 1:02 UTC (Sat) by jordanb (subscriber, #45668) [Link]

Debian Testing doesn't seem to me to any more risky than Ubuntu Stable.

If you want incredibly carefully built and tested release, you need to go with Debian Stable.
If you want quick releases, then, well, modulus Canonical's advertising, there's some risk in
that.