Re: RedHat vs Debian?
hmm, Ok, give me a list of stability:
potato most stable
sid (unstable) next most stable
woody (testing) "least" stable
Problem is manage ment doesn't understand "shortly after" they want
an "average # of hours/days" etc.
Thus spake Jason Majors (jason@whizzird.net):
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:53:32AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> >
> > Right. I'm running all woody (unstable) at home and on a couple
> > test boxes at my office. Problem is management is looking for some
> > "studies" and the like I can point them to showing a comparison.
> > Things like which distro "stable" release has more bugs, speed of
> > release for bug fixes, security fixes and such.
> >
> Debian stable probably has more reported bugs, because it's older. But it
> probably has fewer active bugs and fewer serious bugs.
> Debian security updates are usually avaiable shortly after the offending
> program is patched.
>
> BTW...Woody is testing, Sid is unstable (but still more stable than the
> RedHat 6.2 I upgraded from).
:wq!
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