On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:45:29PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. M?rz 2004 18:32 schrieb Jody Grafals: > > I think for the most part many running debian on the desktop are already > > using sarge or sid, and I must say I am run several servers with woody, > > I like it just the way it is, thank you very much. > > I enjoy the stability of woody also on the desktop but have to admit that the > KDE I use is a backported one and it runs quit stable, too. I fear that > sarge is too unstable for my daily work, and I've heard really bad things > about debian-installer. > > > [...] > > > So if your just running a desktop I would not let the bugs scar you away > > from Sarge or Sid there still satiable compared to the competition. > > What about security? I'm online all the time my computer is on. Are the > sarge versions of iptables and ssh stable enough to give me good security? > If you have a non-Debian distribution, you may get quick security updates, > with sarge, you don't get them.
Then add the security entry to apt. I think its deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main (I am using unstable so I don't think that line gets much use in my sources.list). Any security updates get ported to testing on an expedited basis as compared to regular packages. > > > If your running a server the latest is not always the greatest, debian > > woody is a great server OS, as is. > > I agree with you in part. The problem is that you sometimes need newer > software also for a server. > > > [...] > > > Jody > > Wolfgang > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]