Re: Debian sid and "risk management"
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:42:31PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear
> > > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on
> > > servers, it's plenty stable enough in my experience.
>
> Running unstable on an outward-facing server is probably a bad idea
> because security holes could be present.
>
> The general advice I've heard on this list is run wooody+security
> updates + backports.
Backports are far more likely to have known but unpatched security holes
than packages in unstable. Unstable is really no less insecure from
that POV than stable.
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