On Friday 01 March 2013 22:33:37 Dick Thomas wrote:
Debian is always out of date and even the "stable" is unsecure as
its backported fixes rather than updates
Sorry to answer piecemeal. Debian stable starts to go out of date as soon as
it is released, or even before, while it was still testing, but in freeze.
It has security updates throughout its life and for the first year of being
Old Stable. It is very secure. Nothing, and no distro, is totally secure,
but Debian Stable is as close as you are likely to get.
Many people therefore use Stable only for servers. Testing is more up to
date, and is as stable as many released versions of other distros. It does
not, however, get up to date security updates.
Many people in fact run Unstable on their desktops and just upgrade with
caution. I understand that it does get security upgrades, but although I
have installed it to look at it, I have never had the nerve to install it on
my workhorse machine.
Lisi