Larry Gilson wrote: > And your $0.02 is appreciated! Most of what you write is also consistent > with my research. However, I am pleasantly surprised to hear that the > security updates are timely. Most articles just indicate that Debian > updates, in general, are slow. So it is nice to hear that the security > updates do not fall into the 'general' category.
What's more, Debian backports *all* security fixes into the versions available in 'stable' - so while you do have Apache 1.3.26 in stable currently, it contains all the fixes for all the issues in 1.3.26-1.3.29 already. Which makes for a very smooth security upgrade path - you don't have to worry about version 1.x.y having a bug , and 1.x.y+1 having a completely different configuration file format, or other dependancies, or whatever. So versions in 'stable' are "old", (though you can get current versions of many packages for stable with extension repositories, look at apt-get.org or/and search Google for 'Adrian Bunk'), BUT you have less problems. And upgrading the whole distribution is never really necessary, you can just upgrade packages as they come (and when 'stable' switches versions you can treat it like just another upgrade with a bit more downloads and perhaps one or the other configuration change). I am maintainng eight completely different Debian machines in eight locations (and three time zones :-) right now, and that's beside my main job. And I don't have very much to do, security upgrades are automatic, logcheck warns me when something happens (OK, reading logcheck, snort, cron mails takes 10 minutes a day perhaps) and that's it. -- Jens Benecke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.hitchhikers.de - Europaweite kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale http://www.spamfreemail.de - 100% saubere Postfächer - garantiert! http://www.rb-hosting.de - PHP ab 9? - SSH ab 19? - günstiger Traffic ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
