Re: RedHat vs Debian?
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:50:38AM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote:
You might try going to http://www.securityportal.com and see what they
have to say about the different distributions and when they have
bugfixes. If you look at the weekly summary, you will find that debian
is almost always one of the first to release security updates.
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:33:21AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Debian stable is quite old. <snip>
> <snip> I don't remember which version of GNOME
> they ship with, but potato has only 1.0.55. There are a lot of other
> things that have been updated since the release of stable. However,
> stable is really stable and a good platform. When the next stable is
Remember that even though stable is quite old, you can always use the
deb-src for sid (or woody) and run 'apt-get source --build' for those
newer packages you must have. Of course if you need gnome, there is
ximian...
Jamie Strandboge
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