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[Brad Campbell]

Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> too late
> 
> various (unix'es/VMS and windoze)->redhat->mandrake->gentoo (~2- yrs ago
> now!)
> 
> <duck&run> when are the rest of you moving from legacy distros's ?
> </duck&run>
> 

When Gentoo can guarantee that upgrading a package for a security patch is not going to alter its 
behaviour in any way.

Debian backports security patches to guarantee that when you upgrade that server 12,000km away 
remotely over a piece of wet string that your application will not change its behaviour in any way, 
shape or form.
Gentoo tends to fix security holes by moving to the latest upstream package and thus not at all 
guaranteeing stable behaviour without having to reconfigure things.

Different strokes for different folks I guess. Plus, when Debian says *stable* they jolly well mean it.

NEXT!

Brad