stable is *old*. It's missing pretty much every bug introduced anywhere in about the last two years, a luxury that any more recent distribution doesn't have.
Like:- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25608.html ;-)
(Of course, it's also missing most features introduced in anything during the last two years.)
Which is why I run testing. stable would be fine for servers, but I like using my home computer to the best of it's abilities.
If you're not running stable - well, security.d.o doesn't have updates for testing and unstable.
Well, surely *someone's* scrutinising the security of the new packages? And Woody was set to be frozen in May...
"Ricardo Campos" corez23@linuxmail.org writes:
(Of course, it's also missing most features introduced in anything during the last two years.)
Which is why I run testing. stable would be fine for servers, but I like using my home computer to the best of it's abilities.
If you're not running stable - well, security.d.o doesn't have updates for testing and unstable.
Well, surely *someone's* scrutinising the security of the new packages? And Woody was set to be frozen in May...
Yes, of course. If you look at the BTS or debian-devel, you'll find there are a number of known problems. They shouldn't be in the new stable when the current testing is released, but testing/unstable have never had the same policy of rapid security updates as stable, despite the "48 hours" claim on http://www.debian.org/security/.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:04:49AM +0000, Ricardo Campos said:
Well, surely *someone's* scrutinising the security of the new packages? And Woody was set to be frozen in May...
Debian has gone off the path lately to be honest....
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Craig wrote:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:04:49AM +0000, Ricardo Campos said:
Well, surely *someone's* scrutinising the security of the new packages? And Woody was set to be frozen in May...
Debian has gone off the path lately to be honest....
?! In what way?
(If you mean because of the delay in releasing, I think upgrading the security procedures before releasing is an excusable and laudable thing to do.)
Andrew.
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