[plug] Debian .vs. Gentoo

[William Kenworthy]

Gentoo security is at least as fast as the major distros.  However,
because of the package management design, they do not have to worry
about backports like a binary distro - unless you want to keep a legacy
version for some reason, which is doable, but is then your lookout.

BillK


On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 07:44, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <20031029114245.GA5283 at mail.guild.uwa.edu.au>
> on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:42:45PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> > I have installed various packages from sarge and am happy with those
> > versions
> 
> BTW something I forgot to mention was security. Obviously, one aspect of
> sarge and sid is that you are not supposed to have expectations about
> security updates. For me, there is no skin off my back because I take
> care of security manually on other systems. But, if you rely on one
> vendor to adivse and rectify security, perhaps it is not good advice to
> go with Debian sarge or sid. I don't know -- just thought I should point
> it out. If you *do* need to make manual security updates to a system --
> or change to a version that's not yet packaged by your OS vendor -- I
> quite like BSD ports-style maintenance the best. I have not had to try
> to do my own security patches with Debian sarge (so maybe it's not so
> bad after all) but I do think that Debian packaging is something that is
> designed more as a "developer" activity than a "sysadmin" activity (for
> obvious reasons, though). I don't know how Gentoo ports compare.
> 
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