Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread stoffl4ever
On 17.05.2014 21:33, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Joel Rees dijo [Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:06:41PM +0900]: The problem is, that Debian lacks a page similar to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features Is that page really useful? I mean, besides as a sort of sales brochure? Agree with this. It would be

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
herzogbrigit...@t-online.de herzogbrigit...@t-online.de schrieb: Hello there, I'm a new user of the great Debian distro for my Desktop. But when I talked to a friend and I told him, that I'm using Debian (Wheezy) for my desktop computer, he told me that I shoudn't use it because it is not

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Sunday, 2014-05-18 at 14:46:21 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: Ubuntu only provides security support for the main and restricted archive sections: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#Official_Support But since the universe section is enabled by default, you'll end up with a lot of

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Stanislav Bocinec
Thanks for the nice comparison. I never realized Debian main consists of so many packages, i always considered default ubuntu intallation not so secure due to universe repo enabled by default.. Here is one interesting presentation about Ubuntu trusty 14.04 security features:

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Stanislav Bocinec
sorry, here's proper link to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_kTBIZLoT3VOGOFgTqjkQ3E0e4o_esV71RNzo4JuQI0/pub?start=falseloop=falsedelayms=3000#slide=id.ge4adadaf_1_645 s. On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Stanislav Bocinec sva...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the nice

Debians security features: Please help us!

2014-05-18 Thread herzogbrigit...@t-online.de
Hello everybody, Patrick Schleizer started a great table about the security features in Debian in the Debian wiki. This is the link to the page: https://wiki.debian.org/Security/Features It's an overview of the implemented security features in Debian. Many points in the table are not

Re: Debians security features: Please help us!

2014-05-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 21:53 +0200, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de wrote: So: Please help us to complete the table. Why didn't you just use the Ubuntu script to automatically fill it out?