Darryl RXthering wrote: > > Can someone explain the advantage many see in Debian upgrades vrs. RedHat? > To take a concrete example, lets say I planned to start upgrading my home > throwaway box (where I put up slink a few years back). > For a concrete example, someone reported a bind security problem recently, and I did:
apt-get install bind thus fetching the updated package from security.debian.org. 1 second to type one command, and about a minute to watch and see if the upgrade went OK. It even stopped and started the named daemon on its own. I would be really surprised if RedHat does all that.