Subj : Re: Debian vs. Slackware
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Unknown
Date : Sun Sep 19 2004 08:19 pm

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 01:18:55 +0100, Paul Nolan wrote:

> Unknown wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:16:20 +0000, Bruce Coryell wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Fedora is a good learning distro, but Debian would be the choice for 
>>>real cutting edge stuff.  
>> 
>> 
>> There are a lot things Debian is good at but cutting edge stuff is not one
>> of them.
> If you mean Woody, yes. I'm using Sid ATM and it seems to get new stuff 
> appearing all the time (KDE 3.3 appeared pretty much straight away). OK, 
> you sacrifice a bit of stability, but then that's the case with any distro.
> If you want a nice halfway-house between new and stable, then Sarge is a 
> great choice (I started there, and only moved to Sid because the Mozilla 
> family and KDE seemed to be lagging behind a bit).


The only problem with using Sarge/Testing is that security updates aren't
guaranteed at all. Stable has guaranteed updates and unstable while there
is no guarantee will generally get fixes pretty fast but due to the nature
of Sarge/Testing security fixes may to take 2 weeks or more to enter the
tree. So the way I see it unless you are actually doing testing for the
upcoming release it's probably better to just run Stable or Unstable from
a security point of view.

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