On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 09:01, R. Scott Belford wrote: > Richard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to hear some technical advice on the > > comparison of Fedora and Debian. If I want to mainly > > run network applications, what package should I use? > > GUI is not critical to me. > > > > Both are community developed projects. Each embodies the same > philosophy of Open Source Development. Comparing the two distributions > requires the consideration of their respective release schedules.
[snip] > The primary criticism of Debian Stable is that the packages are old. > Most of these critics are incapable of stating the technical merits of > the "newer" packages they profess to crave. I prefer, for stability and > reliability, to go with the least common denominator, so to speak. How does Debian deal with security issues? For example, if Apache issues a security alert and an upgrade to correct the vulnerability, how quickly does Debian make the update available? At work I run FreeBSD in a production environment. I used to follow the conservative path and only run RELEASE, but I ran into problems where an upgraded application from the ports collection would not compile due to library mismatches. Now I track STABLE, and have had fewer problems. In general, the need to react quickly to security updates has made the job of upgrading at lot more of a challenge. Gary Dunn
