Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

[Reid Sutherland <reid@vianet.ca>]

>> 
>> That's a good list of all the currently fashionable "security" 
>> features for Linux. Some of the items in the list are meaningful,
>> some are not. Most might be if you know what you are doing with them.
>> None of the meaningful items in that list are unavailable on Debian,
>> and the defaults are reasonably secure in Debian.
> 
> The problem is, that Debian lacks a page similar to:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features
> 
> As you can see, that https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features page
> looks impressive to new users. I guess Debian is losing a few users to
> Ubuntu, because Debian does not have such a page.
> 


Again, Debian is not in the business of handholding new Linux users, nor should it be.  Debian is a foundation for targeted systems.