On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 14:42 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear > > > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on > > > servers, it's plenty stable enough in my experience. > > Running unstable on an outward-facing server is probably a bad idea > because security holes could be present. > > The general advice I've heard on this list is run wooody+security > updates + backports. Well, when a security hole in an application is found the next version of the application usually includes a fix, so by keeping the system regularly updated with the newest versions of a package it SHOULD keep most of the holes plugged. woody + security is definitely the safest bet, but see my previous statements about running a nuclear defense grid or something less critical. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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