> If you spend enough time on it you can convince yourself that any box is > "secure". Secure systems is one area where debian excels though. Debian > packaging policy means that old, reliable software is used in favour of > newer, possibly more functional, but possibly also less secure software.
NB: This is not a Debian bash, I've just got very little (tending to zero) experience of it. I would hope that Debian, whilst keeping to more elderly software, back-ports security fixes to their distribution ? Also, given that some software releases happen because of security fixes, you may well find that older software is not always more secure. I remember the old sendmail "bug of the month club" times, where those unlucky enough to still be using that MTA would be updating their software on a fairly regular basis to try and keep up-to-date with the fixes. Fortunately we were using Smail, and then Qmail. :-) cheers, Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
