Re: New server: Sarge or Etch?

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:33:03AM +0000, Marco De Vitis wrote:
in the next few days I'll have to replace an old server running Debian
Sarge with a new machine, and I was wondering: maybe I should directly
install Etch on it, now that it almost reached its "stable" status?

Yes, am using etch for all new server installs that I intend to
track stable: etch is quite stable now with few updates and I don't
see the point of installing sarge and then having to go through a
lot of upgrades and reconfiguration in the near future.

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