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[David Gerard]

2009/9/16 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/9/16 Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>:

>> It makes _perfect_ sense.  Debian is famous for being even further behind
>> the cutting edge, because they test everything until they start getting
>> developer attrition due to old age.  Ubuntu has taken a more aggressive
>> approach - they'll test everything until it's "good enough".
>> You can always get up-to-date packages for any particular app, but you can't
>> guarantee they'll integrate with your existing desktop.

> Or the approach where you run a Debian server on old stuff, and
> install the latest shiny from the source tarballs.


Speaking of which, here's a coupla questions:

* Does anyone here actually run Ubuntu Server for business work?
* Does anyone here buy support from Canonical? What are they like for
support (In comparison to Red Hat, Sun or Dell. I have used Red Hat
support and consider it shit. Sun are good, Dell are surprisingly good
on the server.)


- d.