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[Timothy Butler]

>
> This is what has pushed me more toward Debian.  They support the
> software for a long time, and you can just enable the Security
> repositories to only get bug fixes and security updates without all  
> the
> other updates.

	Do they do security backports? That's the big deal, in my estimation.  
When upstream quits doing pure security updates for a given package,  
RH continues to make sure that security updates in later major/minor  
releases get backported to the distro's major/minor version.

> They also offer a MUCH better upgrade path between
> releases than RH/CentOS.

	Can't say I've attempted a upgrade on RHEL. I ran my last RHEL server  
on one release until it was time to retire it -- that works with a 7  
year support cycle. I kept the server for 4. I have at least four  
years until my current RHEL release EOLs, so no worries again... :-)

	Debian also isn't very well supported by cPanel, which takes it out  
of consideration for me as a web hosting environment. I like Debian  
though, no doubt about it.

	-Tim


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