On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Du, 13 mar 11, 19:30:30, Dan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have been using Ubuntu for a while for my desktop and I am planning >> to come back to Debian stable because there is now a two-year release >> cycle which is more reasonable. > > Debian does not have a fixed release cycle, and probably never will. > Maybe a fixed freeze cycle, but this is still not decided. OTOH the last > three releases (etch, lenny and squeeze) were approximately 2 years > apart, are you talking about sarge? > Yes I think that I was using woody or sarge and it took for ever to update. Then I switched to Ubuntu.
>> My worried is related with the security of the browser. The Ubuntu >> approach is to use the latest version of mozilla or the chromium >> project. >> >> The Debian approach is to freeze the version and apply themselves the >> patches. In my opinion this is worse because the mozilla/chromium >> project should know better the problems/security issues related with >> their browsers right? >> >> Can I consider these frozen versions secure enough. >> >> How secure is the chromium browser in Debian? It is an and old release the 6. > > You seem to assume Debian Developers will write the security patches > themselves. AFAIK patches are mostly backported and chromium might be > updated since it is a leaf package. The Release Notes for squeeze have > more info. What do you mean by leaf package? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikdnyfbc2pvo4ktrndftohdpox33njz-tqr3...@mail.gmail.com
