Debian Stable vs. Testing
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Anyone have any thoughts as to which of the two dists would be the most stable, and secure, on a production server? (Assuming of course it it kept up to date on a regular basis.)
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Things do break badly every now and then, although this tends to be in big complicated things like gnome, which you probably aren't running.
It doesn't (usually) get security updates - vunerable packages can hang around for ages.
However, as sarge is moving towards becoming stable, it is currently getting security updates, and things are (slowly) beginning to become a bit more static. You might consider tracking it from now until it becomes stable (this is what I'm doing on my linode). Be prepared to do a lot of apt-get upgrading though.
Since you're looking for stability and security though, a better option might be to take a look at somewhere like