Re: Debian: abandon ship?
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:49:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Oleg" == Oleg <oleg@tw304h3.cpmc.columbia.edu> writes:
> Oleg> How does FreeBSD manage to stay reasonably secure and stable,
> Oleg> yet modern (compared to Potato)?
>
> Perhaps number of packages has something to do with this? How
> does testing compare to freebsd in terms of security and stability?
> (I do not use freebsd, so I honestly do not know).
Similar order of magnitude in terms of number of packages, if you count
the FreeBSD ports system. However, I don't think FreeBSD take their
ports into account when it comes to making releases in quite the same
way we take optional and extra packages into account.
FreeBSD certainly has a very good reputation in terms of security and
stability; I'd ask the FreeBSD committer sitting behind me, but he'd
probably be biased. :-)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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