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@sammcj I had switched to debian for all of my docker images. There is a lot more work involved when using debian some of which are as follows:

1. some applications need newer versions of packages which you will not find in debian:stable. This makes it extremely difficult package applications most of which expect Ubuntu LTS versions or Redhat versions.
2. due to above problem i switched to debian:testing.
3. debian:testing packages again has compatibility with most applications you try to dockerize.
4. most third party package maintainers do not create packages for debian, which makes things extremely difficult.
5. when the infamous heartbleed issue showed up my images were based on debian:jessie and I distinctly remember waiting for weeks before the issue was patched. The same was patched by in ubuntu lts versions in only a couple of days.

All in all, it makes much more sense building docker images on top of ubuntu lts versions. Switching to debian to save a couple of MB's is just not worth it.

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Thanks for the info @sameersbn,

One tip I'll give about Debian Stable is make sure you're using the Backports APT repository - that gives you all the newer, but still tested software versions. Often you'll find it's actually ahead of Ubuntu!

With regards to Jessie, I wouldn't suggest using it in production until it's released.

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@sammcj ok.. that may be it. I did not enable backports repo at the time. Either ways I think its better to stick with the LTS versions. Apart from the fact that everything works fine right now.

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@sammcj Besides it seems like once you enable the backports repo on debian you can no longer regard it as stable. quote from http://backports.debian.org/ Backports cannot be tested as extensively as Debian stable, and backports are provided on an as-is basis, with risk of incompatibilities with other components in Debian stable. Use with care!

However in docker since the system depends on only a couple of packages installed and only a few running processes inside the container stability basically depends on quality of these few packages as opposed to booting up a complete vm.

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I'll bet you that Debian back ports is more stable than anything Ubuntu has released ;)

Anyway, thanks for trying.

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On 25 Dec 2014, at 6:59 pm, Sameer Naik [email protected] wrote:

@sammcj Besides it seems like once you enable the backports repo on debian you can no longer regard it as stable. quote from http://backports.debian.org/ Backports cannot be tested as extensively as Debian stable, and backports are provided on an as-is basis, with risk of incompatibilities with other components in Debian stable. Use with care!

However in docker since the system depends on only a couple of packages installed and only a few running processes inside the container stability basically depends on quality of these few packages.

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