Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 [LWN.net]

Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Feb 27, 2008 8:53 UTC (Wed) by DG (subscriber, #16978)
Parent article: Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

It's great RedHat are so open about such things - I often wonder how other distros compare, it
would be great if they all published comparable statistics. 

Perhaps it's a case of 'You get what you pay for'?

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Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Feb 27, 2008 12:30 UTC (Wed) by emk (subscriber, #1128) [Link]

Another data point for you: At work, I manage a mixed network of Debian stable and Ubuntu 7.10
servers. The Debian security team generally issues updates several days before Ubuntu, and
they cover the entire distro, not just a small, supported core.

As I otherwise prefer Ubuntu (because they release updates twice a year), this is rather
disappointing to me. But kudos to the Debian team!

Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Feb 27, 2008 22:46 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

> because they release updates twice a year

I follow Debian Lenny/Sid on my stuff and I get updates all year long. :)

2.4.26 kernel, Gnome 2.20, xorg 7.3 and all that happy stuff.
The trick is, for me at least, to enable both lenny and sid in my sources.list then use
apt_preferences to set the priority for Lenny. Then I install stuff from sid when I feel like
it..

Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Feb 28, 2008 10:51 UTC (Thu) by errare_est (guest, #14275) [Link]

I do run debian/(unstable|sid) on my workstation, but having that on a production server is
too risky: I love my weekends.

Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Mar 1, 2008 1:02 UTC (Sat) by jordanb (subscriber, #45668) [Link]

Debian Testing doesn't seem to me to any more risky than Ubuntu Stable.

If you want incredibly carefully built and tested release, you need to go with Debian Stable.
If you want quick releases, then, well, modulus Canonical's advertising, there's some risk in
that.