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Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:26:52PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Difference between RedHat and Debian update systems are not really
> technological. At least not the important details. I think redhat's
> system is a bit better technologically wise, BTW.
>
> The problem is that you cannot leave your system to automatically run
> up2date, and be sure everything is ok. I have had a system become really
> really unstable as a result of running up2date regularily on it (RedHat
> 7.1, not server).
>
> On the other hand, I have a system running Debian Potato, and doing
> apt-get dist-upgrade to keep it up to date, and while updates are very
> scarce, I have yet to see a security problem go unpatched for more than
> a few days, and no noticable ill effects (as well as using the same
> mechanism at home for desktop computers).
>
> So, while redhat's up2date may be slightly supirior technologically wise
> (and I am not even sure about that - you are sending your entire
> system's config for safe-keeping on RedHat's systems), Debian careful
> updates policy is unmatched. Only flaw I found was that their habbit of
> backporting security patches means that security scanners give false
> positives.
What do you mean by "technologically superior"?
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