Quoting Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If you spend enough time on it you can convince yourself that any box > is > > "secure". Secure systems is one area where debian excels though. > Debian > > packaging policy means that old, reliable software is used in favour > of > > newer, possibly more functional, but possibly also less secure > software. > > NB: This is not a Debian bash, I've just got very little (tending to > zero) > experience of it. > > I would hope that Debian, whilst keeping to more elderly software, > back-ports security fixes to their distribution ?
security fixes for anything on the current stable release are always available on security.debian.org for example :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
