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There is a reason why Debian does backports: to get the bug fixes and nothing else. Why on earth would you want new features on a production box? If new feature
by joeyo 17y ago
There is a reason why Debian does backports: to get the bug fixes and nothing else. Why on earth would you want new features on a production box? If new features are added, something could break. If features are removed in the new version (and this happens more often than you might think) something could break. If even the command line arguments change, something could break.
For this reason there's pretty much zero pain to Debian Stable updates. I cannot even think of a single instance off the top of my head where applying buxfixes on a Debian Stable box has caused any problems at all.
- dfranke 17y ago> I cannot even think of a single instance off the top of my head where applying buxfixes on a Debian Stable box has caused any problems at all. Well, a certain commented-out line in OpenSSL comes to mind :-) But seriously, I refuse to run anything other than Debian Stable, Ubuntu LTS, or a stable BSD tree on my home systems. I rely on my desktop more than I rely on any given server, so why would I put something less stable on it?
- SwellJoe 17y agoI rely on my desktop more than I rely on any given server Sure, we probably all stare at our desktop machines for hours a day, and only poke at our servers for a few minutes each day. But, an hour-long outage of my primary server will effect hundreds or thousands of people. An hour-long outage of my desktop will effect only one guy. I'll spit and sputter and curse a lot, but it probably won't cost me business or customer good will. That said, everytime something breaks on my desktop machine running Fedora, I think "Hmmm...maybe I should be running CentOS here."