On Sunday 15 December 2002 22:39, Josh Huber wrote:
Sands Fish <fishsands@yahoo.com> writes:
Would Debian or Gentoo be suitable for an enterprise environment? No worries about having it be an open server on the Internet for mail and possibly other MIS-like silliness? Please advise, thanx in advance. :)
I can't speak for Gentoo, but Debian has served me well in Enterprise environments in the past. Security advisories are prompt, and the stable release of Debian strives to change as little as possible, making it an ideal (IMHO ;) choice for servers.
GLSA's are released as soon as Gentoo gets wind of them and updating the affected packages usually is just: emerge rsync emerge <pkg> emerge clean as for stability, we've introduced stable/unstable masking which aims to take care of this ... but we do not move as slowly as Debian stable, in fact we try to avoid that kind of non-change ... -mike