--- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep getting this feeling that if I'd just sit down and devote five > years of my life to reading every scrap of Debian information on the > web, I'd stop feeling completely lost in this distro...
HEhehehe, as compared to which distro? Redhat? > > Every user of testing knows that he must read > > debian-security-announce and if needed install fixes from unstable > > since it can take an arbitrary amount of time until security fixes > > from unstable enter testing (most likely none of fixes from the > last > > 70 security advisories is in testing). Joseph and I were just talking about this yesterday. Stuff only makes testing once's it's hit a stability of a few weeks. So testing is the least secure because of that. Unstable is second, because it needs to be compiled for many architechtures. Stable is usually good, and adding security.debian.org's stable updates often is the answer, though it won't always work for all packages if you run testing. > That is demonstrably a false statement, since I was a counterexample > until last week. I didn't even know there was a > debian-security-announce mailing list. (Since then, I've subscribed > to all the debian-*-announce lists. Maybe it will help.) I used to subscribe to all of the mailing lists, but I tried to get a life. Not that it helped. > But the thing is, I really want an OS that lets me use the computer > to do neat stuff, not an OS that lets me spend every second of spare > time tracking down obscure but necessary system administration bother, > just to keep my boxes up to date and secure. Then install stable. If you choose cutting edge (or near cutting edge) over security & stability, of course it takes a bit more 'bother'. Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick 2. (Debian is Free, so you get Cheap automatically so Pick just 1) Seth __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
