On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:50:38AM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote: You might try going to http://www.securityportal.com and see what they have to say about the different distributions and when they have bugfixes. If you look at the weekly summary, you will find that debian is almost always one of the first to release security updates.
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:33:21AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Debian stable is quite old. <snip> > <snip> I don't remember which version of GNOME > they ship with, but potato has only 1.0.55. There are a lot of other > things that have been updated since the release of stable. However, > stable is really stable and a good platform. When the next stable is Remember that even though stable is quite old, you can always use the deb-src for sid (or woody) and run 'apt-get source --build' for those newer packages you must have. Of course if you need gnome, there is ximian... Jamie Strandboge -- "The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it." -- Author unknown Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG/PGP Public Key ID: 26384A3A GPG/PGP Fingerprint: D9FF DF4A 2D46 A353 A289 E8F5 AA75 DCBE 2638 4A3A
