From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.z74.net!news.z74.net!news.banetele.no!news.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: [OT] Reasons for using Debian (Was: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available) Date: 17 Sep 2005 12:05:46 +0200 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Sender: sparre@hugin.crs4.it Message-ID: References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126773856.876636.265130@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126794444.071827.191320@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.241.165.38 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1126951547 26518 80.241.165.38 (17 Sep 2005 10:05:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: sparre@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:05:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4818 Date: 2005-09-17T12:05:46+02:00 List-Id: Bj�rn Persson wrote: > Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > I'd also like to hear your reasons for using, or not using, > > Debian. > In case my boss wanted to change OSes on our server farm and wanted > a really stable and reliable distribution, only one thing would keep > me from suggesting Debian: I haven't been able to find a way to > automatically verify, by cryptographic signatures, that downloaded > packages are genuine. That makes automated updating and installation > seem a bit too risky for my taste. It is my impression that the current Debian/stable (and the newer versions) uses cryptographic signatures on all packages, and that Aptitude requires operator interaction for upgrading of unsigned packages. > On my desktop box at home, stability is a tad less important and I > often want the new features in recent versions of various programs, > so there I have a second reason. For this purpose Debian/unstable (with "apt-listbugs" installed) is a pretty good solution - at least on my workstation. Jacob PS: I apologise for posting this to the newsgroup, but I couldn't remember Bj�rn's e-mail address. -- �Alts� h�r nu, jeg ved snart ikke... Jeg var ikke s� vild med sidste gang p� Jorden... Korset, s�mmene, tornene og alt det der...� -- S�nnen (ifgl. M�zi�res & Christin)