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Re: How to "downgrade" to testing?



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On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 02:45:38PM +0000, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> Although Debian "unstable" has actually proved pretty stable for me, I 
> am aware that it is the development version and hence I cannot moan in 
> the slightest if somebody breaks something.  Upon further inspection, 
> the "testing" distribution would seem a much better choice (this is a 
> client machine behind a block-all firewall, so security is not a 
> consideration).

A firewall should *NOT* be your only form of security.  A firewall is
essentially only a second layer of protection, a backup to the first:
Actually secure configurations.

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