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Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants
Will verify PGP keys (though I have heard of a problem with the
verification).
Will report to you what was done.
that's it, more or less.
On the other hand - Will not let you choose where to get the updates
from (+3rd party packages not supported)
Will send the entire config to redhat.
Requires subscription (even if it's free, at the moment).
Adi Stav wrote:
>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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