[ale] Debian 3.0 as a server platform?

[Raylynn Knight]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 23:06 -0500, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> On Wednesday June 01 2005 19:41, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Debian stable as a server is tops-down the best (and most
> > widely supported) choice,
> >
> > -Jim P.
> 
> Really? "Most widely" supported?
> 
> Tops-down "the best" including FreeBSD and other distros?
> 
> Why?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not attacking, it's just that I have never heard anyone make those claims, 
> and would like to know more. Where can I go get the "support?"
> 
> (Are you speaking along the lines of sticking with "stable"?)
> 
> For those "Debian Defenders" out there, it would be positive if they could 
> point out features Debian has that CAN'T be found with other distros.
> 
I'll take this one.  It supports ia32, m68k, sparc, alpha, PPC, arm,
mips, mipsel, hppa, ia64 and s390 architectures.  I don't know of any
other linux distribution that supports this many architectures.  NetBSD
may support more architectures, but their device support isn't as
broad.  
> Also, I don't know where to get the information, but it would also be good if 
> the Debian Defenders could list case studies of organizations using Debian.