Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:38 AM, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de wrote: > Hello there, > I'm a new user of the great Debian distro for my Desktop. But when I talked > to a friend and I told him, that I'm using Debian (Wheezy) for my desktop > computer, he told me that I shoudn't use it because it is

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Reid Sutherland wrote: > [response shifted to conversational format] > On May 16, 2014, at 3:38 PM, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de wrote: > >> Hello there, >> I'm a new user of the great Debian distro for my Desktop. But when I talked >> to a friend and I told him, t

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread Reid Sutherland
From my view, Debian is designed to be flexible and does not impose any unnecessary features on the user. For this reason, I find it is best for new users to operate distributions that are more targeted to their needs. Distributions such as Ubuntu come with reasonable defaults for the market t

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 05/16/2014 04:11 PM, Riku Valli wrote: On 16.05.2014 22:38, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de wrote: Hello there, Hi There is some info https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#hardening http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/ubuntu-and-debian https://

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread Riku Valli
On 16.05.2014 22:38, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de wrote: > Hello there, Hi There is some info https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#hardening http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/ubuntu-and-debian https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianImportFreeze Practica

Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread herzogbrigit...@t-online.de
Hello there, I'm a new user of the great Debian distro for my Desktop. But when I talked to a friend and I told him, that I'm using Debian (Wheezy) for my desktop computer, he told me that I shoudn't use it because it is not secure. He told me to use Ubuntu instead. He explained that with the fa