Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > It's well-known that Debian releases are rock-solid. But I've been > wondering if there's been a comparison between various releases as > regards stability. It would be nice if there's some commentary from > long-time Debian users (say those who experienced it pre-Woody), and > another way is by judging by the number security fixes to a particular > release. Any stats out there? There is *no* value in considering the number of advisories unless you also account for things like follow-ups to the same advisory, severity, whether the exploit was seen in the wild, how long it took to create a fix, etc. Some of those factors are more under the control of the upstream developers than the Debian maintainers. So, I would say that it would be exceedingly difficult to make a quantitative analysis. > By the way is there a distro out there considered as stable as > Debian's Stable. This is not a question of which is a better distro > (too many variables involved there), but just a question of, "which > distro breaks less?" > Again, that is not really a fair or accurate question. I would assert that distros specifically targeted at certain segments of the market would do better in that respect. If you have a distro that is targeted at firewall applications, it won't be affected by things like the problems that occur with X, Gnome, and KDE. OTOH, anything target at the desktop/workstation market would include a great many more packages and probably have more security issues. Even those statements are very broad and I'm sure you could find exceptions. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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