On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:26:52PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Difference between RedHat and Debian update systems are not really > technological. At least not the important details. I think redhat's > system is a bit better technologically wise, BTW. > > The problem is that you cannot leave your system to automatically run > up2date, and be sure everything is ok. I have had a system become really > really unstable as a result of running up2date regularily on it (RedHat > 7.1, not server). > > On the other hand, I have a system running Debian Potato, and doing > apt-get dist-upgrade to keep it up to date, and while updates are very > scarce, I have yet to see a security problem go unpatched for more than > a few days, and no noticable ill effects (as well as using the same > mechanism at home for desktop computers). > > So, while redhat's up2date may be slightly supirior technologically wise > (and I am not even sure about that - you are sending your entire > system's config for safe-keeping on RedHat's systems), Debian careful > updates policy is unmatched. Only flaw I found was that their habbit of > backporting security patches means that security scanners give false > positives.
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