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Re:Debian 9.2 released by buserror on Monday October 09, 2017 @05:41AM (#15432513)
I have a debian install that I've installed in 2001. It's clean, fully up to date and has never been reinstalled. It's not necessary. It had apache1 before, it had the old exim before, it had all kind of old packages and was gradually updated over the years. True, something like 'etckeeper' is a great boon these days.

Still, that's what I call a server distro ;-)

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Re:Debian 9.2 released by StudentStuff on Monday October 09, 2017 @07:06AM (#15432851)
And yet, here I am running it on my laptop! :D

Debian is a great, stable distro. Even Sid, the unstable, rolling branch sees little breakage overall. Sane defaults, package maintainers who care about the minor rendering bugs in obscure packages and make the effort to patch said bugs. I'm continually impressed by the fit & finish of Debian, especially in context of how deep the Debian Archive is, with 68 thousand software packages in total.

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Re:Debian 9.2 released by buserror on Monday October 09, 2017 @07:13AM (#15432880)
Oh sure I also run it everywhere else -- sid on my workstation, 'testing' on my home server and laptop etc. It does cover pretty much all the bases!

But, the 'stable' server is rather amazing. I (used to) get into rpm-hell with centos/redhat in a matter of weeks. Even ubuntu will break stuff more often than not when crossgrading from 'major' versions.

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Re:Debian 9.2 released by ethagnawl on Monday October 09, 2017 @10:49AM (#15434234)
I hadn't heard of etckeeper[0] before, thanks for the tip!

0 - https://etckeeper.branchable.com/

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Re:Debian 9.2 released by mobilio on Monday October 09, 2017 @07:17AM (#15432902)
Same here! Just 2005/06 as i remember. And every time apt-get push new things to machine since i'm in "testing" build.
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Re:Debian 9.2 released by Crontab on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:11PM (#15437062)
That's impressive.
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