[CentOS] How to get additional packages? How secure is Yum?

Hello, I'm coming from Slackware and I'm searching for another distribution to run on my desktop and in near future also on a server. The *top priority* for me is security! I've test-installed CentOS on one of my test systems. So far anything went OK. After trying a bit, I would like to ask so

Re: [CentOS] How to get additional packages? How secure is Yum?

"nate" wrote: > Security is pretty important for me too. For this, and other reasons > I never point yum to 3rd party repositories. I only run CentOS/RHEL > on servers. I run Debian on desktops(due to larger package selection > and still long release cycles for stable). And usually Ubuntu on > lapt