On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:20:23AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:44:10PM +0000, Jimbo De La Fuente wrote: > > > How long are Debian-releases supported > > Depends, but looking at the Debian news page, 2.2 (potato) was released > back on [15 Aug 2000]. There were several updates (7) to it. It was > then finally replaced by 3.0 (woody) on [19 Jul 2002]. That's roughly a > 2 year span.
See below. > > And before some-one states the obvious...yes I do install the kernel > > and the 'main' daemons from source > > I've found this to be much less necessary when I started using Debian. Particularly if you use 'apt-get source' to get the Debian package source and build your own customised .deb. > > Are there any other options as a distro (I'm looking for a distro > > with security written in bold)? Debian looks to be pretty good with security (though it's the only OS I have here, so...); the security team seem to be on all the usual advanced warning lists, and DSA (Debian Security Advisories) are released quickly. For more information about security and Debian, have a look at http://security.debian.org/. Another tangentially reassuring thing is section 3 of the Social Contract: 3. We Won't Hide Problems We will keep our entire bug-report database open for public view at all times. Reports that users file on-line will immediately become visible to others. > Well, officially security updates currently only exist for the stable > release (currently woody). And old stable aka Potato; of course, the security team will discontinue them eventually, but, as Colin said, there's been no word about it yet. -rob
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