Quoting Colm MacCarthaigh (colm at stdlib.net):
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 04:02:37PM +0000, Andrew Court wrote:
> > "Just out of curiosity, why would you choose ubuntu for a server over
> > Debian?"
>> So that you're not left with 3 year-old out-of-date junk as your
> only option if you want security updates :-)
FYI, Debian-Testing _has_ had Security Team coverage for a year or two.
Before that, you had the painfully difficult job of skim-reading
the security-alert mailing list, and once every few months pulling down
and manually doing "dpkg -i" on a package at some URL listed in the
securit alert (if it wasn't available automatically from -Stable,
-Testing, or -Unstable). Traumatic, I tell you. I don't know how I
endured it.
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