Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"?
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Subject: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"?
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:18:02 -0500
From: JW <jw@mailsw.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Hello,
Sorry to bother everyone with newbie questions, but I'm struggling to
understand the entire Debian environment and need a little advise.
I have been using SuSE for a long time but recently my job has required me to
start administrating a Debian server that was set up with 3.1/Sarge/Testing
by the co (server is actually in another state, so I'm stuck with what the
co-lo put on it. I like Debian and I'm sure with time I'll figure it all out,
but in the short run I need a little help.
We are planning on keeping the server for quite a long time, it will be used
for part of a billing system (perl/web based).
I was reading the security FAQ and am somewhat alarmed to find (if I
understand correctly) that Testing is not actively supported by the security
team. Youch. If I could put stable on it I would, but for the reasons stated
above I can't.
It seems to me that the best thing for me to do is keep all the installed
software up to date. For one thing, new packages are more likely to contain
security fixes (even if they aren't official security patches), and also, I'm
hoping that some day in the future Sage will be declared stable and I'll be
able to hop on the security train.
As a fellow SUSE user, I can tell you Sarge will eventually be declared stable - after the release-critical bugs have been resolved. I have not yet noticed a date for declaring Sarge stable. Probably shouldn't be too much longer, but I'm fairly new to this environment myself. Hopefully the older hands on deck will be more helpful to you in that regard.
Don
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