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Why do you need bleeding edge packages on your server? Do you not
prefer known working, secure, packages?

I have used all the distributions you mention (Slackware not so much
though). None of them are as easy to maintain as a Debian stable box.
In fact, I wrote a script to check for new updates daily and emails me
when they need to be applied. Applying those updates is as simple as
logging in via ssh and running on command -- `apt-get upgrade`. Since
I wrote the script about six months ago it has only emailed me twice;
I even have two backports set up, one for bittorrent [useless now] and
one for awstats [hardly ever used].

I just don't buy the "Debian is too slow" line when the talk is about
a server environment.


-- 
James Sumners
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pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.&quot;

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