Re: Goodbye stable?
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:45:29PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 28. M?rz 2004 18:32 schrieb Jody Grafals:
> > I think for the most part many running debian on the desktop are already
> > using sarge or sid, and I must say I am run several servers with woody,
> > I like it just the way it is, thank you very much.
>
> I enjoy the stability of woody also on the desktop but have to admit that the
> KDE I use is a backported one and it runs quit stable, too. I fear that
> sarge is too unstable for my daily work, and I've heard really bad things
> about debian-installer.
>
> > [...]
>
> > So if your just running a desktop I would not let the bugs scar you away
> > from Sarge or Sid there still satiable compared to the competition.
>
> What about security? I'm online all the time my computer is on. Are the
> sarge versions of iptables and ssh stable enough to give me good security?
> If you have a non-Debian distribution, you may get quick security updates,
> with sarge, you don't get them.
Then add the security entry to apt. I think its
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
(I am using unstable so I don't think that line gets much use in my
sources.list). Any security updates get ported to testing on an
expedited basis as compared to regular packages.
>
> > If your running a server the latest is not always the greatest, debian
> > woody is a great server OS, as is.
>
> I agree with you in part. The problem is that you sometimes need newer
> software also for a server.
>
> > [...]
>
> > Jody
>
> Wolfgang
>
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