Re: Lifecycle question

["Stephan A. Rickauer" <stephan_(_dot_)_rickauer_(_at_)_ini_(_dot_)_phys_(_dot_)_ethz_(_dot_)_ch>]

Ramiro Aceves schrieb:
> I like and use  both systems. But If you are concerned about easy
> upgrading,  I would recommend Debian GNU/Linux (no flamewars please ;-)
> ). It is a very stable system that it is upgraded slowly, about 2 years
> (they whant to speed it in the future to 18 month cicle). You will not

We have FreeBSD, Debian Sarge and SuSE 9.0 & 9.1 & 9.3 as productive 
systems running. Technically, we're kind of aware of the differences.

> system. If you want a desktop with hundreds of packages installed, I
> find Debian more practical to upgrade. Both systems allow you to tweak
> the internals as you want. Both come with the base system and the
> remaining applications.

We use SuSE on ~50 desktops in our Institute and are quite happy (well, 
we had to tune it a bit to make it use apt-get). Debian is my first 
choice for non-BSD servers, but I would not use it for dekstop purposes 
still. Well, don't wan't flame wars here either ;)

> Anyway, I am getting in love with OpenBSD because of its securyty,
> simplicity, stability, clarity, superb documentation and coherency.
> If I would have to build a server conected to the dangerous Internet, I
> will undoubtlely use OpenBSD.

I am already in love with it, since I plan to use it as a HA-firewall 
using carp and pfsync. Problem here is just that it looks as if I had to 
reinstall it all year ...

Thanks,

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 Stephan A. Rickauer

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