On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:31:21 PST, Nate Amsden writes: >Eric Richardson wrote: >> As in the previous thread -- Why choose Debian? -- it seems the >> packaging, updating system and stability are major plus points. What is >> the long term forecast for package managers and the LSB? Hope this >> hasn't been covered.
>... and they >don't support past releases(e.g. debian 2.1 support was dropped >almost immediately after 2.2 came out). whereas redhat/suse/turbo >etc support releases going back several years in most cases. the >term 'it ain't broke so why fixit' is very popular in the unix >world, IMO it doesn't apply really in debian's case because >you either have to upgrade, or compile your own updates for critical >packages, or live with the fact that as time goes on your system >may be less and less secure(not a good thought to me). Well I haven´t dist-upgraded to 2.2 yet, but keep my sources.list pointed to stable nonetheless. So matter-of-factly I have a quite secure (incl. security-fixes) and up-to-date system with a 2.0.38-kernel ;) and I wouldn´t call it unsupported, weren´t it for some bug in the samba-pkg I´d had no problem until now. &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | KPNQwest/AT | DSA key ID: C33A2BC0 /
