Re: security in testing
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:37:51PM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2003 04:53 pm, Björn Stenberg wrote:
> > What's worse, saying testing is not for public use means there is _no_
> > place to get updates, since unstable is obviously not an option for end
> > users. This makes Debian the only linux distribution I know of that
> > completely eschews software updates between frozen releases (except for
> > security fixes).
>
> Hmm. Funny how myself and every admin I know have only very minor issues with
> running unstable. What, pray tell, makes it such an 'obvious' non-option for
> end users? Well-timed unstable snapshots are often more 'stable' than
> commercial Linux releases, in my limited experience.
Because we give them the impression that testing is more adapted to them
than unstable.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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