[CLUE-Tech] Managing multiple servers (long)

[Dale Hawkins]

Dan Harris <coronadh at coronasolutions.com> writes:

> distros.  Debian of course has apt, which sounded really appealing
> since it would handle dependencies automatically.  But I hadn't heard
> of anyone using debian in a 'corporate' environment yet.

FWIW, I use Debian for our "corporate" environment.  The nice thing is
that stable really does mean stable.  Personally, I am an
upgradoholic.  So I have all my mission critical systems running
stable with security updates and my own box runs a mix of stable,
testing, and even a few "unstable" packages (namely X -- but that is
another story).

I package our corporate stuff (servers and applications) and have
learned how to configure apt (Advanced Package Tool, IIRC) to keep
the package versions the way I want.

Apt can make you want to pull your hair out on occasion.  But, in my
experience, apt does the job correctly 95% of the time.  And the only
real heartache is from messing with a mixed system.

-Dale

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