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So then run ArchLinux on your servers, and godspeed? Debian is not aimed at having the latest and greatest, but its packages do tend to be more up-to-date than RHEL/CentOS, which is its main competition in the "stable server distro that doesn't get you fired" category.

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Or you can just run debian testing, which is many cases is at least as stable as other distros.

So our options are either bleeding edge versions or prehistoric ones?

Forgot option 3: roll your own. (e.g apt-pinning, freeze pkgs etc...etc..)

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