Hi, I know these type of questions are asked a lot but there's a couple of things I don't get & I haven't been able to find an answer using google or searching the message archives.
First up, I'm running testing on my laptop & want some clarification regarding how secure this is. I know it is not monitored in any way for security problems & as such security problems are not fixed on it - however stable is no good to me since my laptop won't boot any 2.4 kernels, and I like/need to use fairly up-to-date software. What I don't understand is why it is so horrendously insecure to run testing - as I understand it when a vulnerability is found, a new version of the program is normally released which fixes the problem. This new version is built by the debian team & put into unstable and then after a bit (do I remember reading somewhere that it used to take 10 days but is now more like 2?) migrates into testing. Surely that means the longest you're likely to be vulnerable is 10 days? I appreciate this is useless for a server, and you've no recourse if you then get hacked as a result of running vulnerable software, but I don't see that it is a matter of being totally vulnerable. Surely it's a matter of being vulerable for a few days longer than if you were running stable - something that I would be willing to live with if it let me run debian on my laptop with up-to-date software. Thanks for any clarification or thoughts! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
