, 2003-02-12
Red Hat and Mandrake are cutting support for older versions of their Linux distributions... The results will be a security nightmare for the Internet.
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New Linux Support Policies are Ominous
2003-02-16
debian user (3 replies)
debian user (3 replies)
Not that anyone should really expect more from a volunteer effort -- I think what they do now is amazing, and use Debian every day. I would never run a production system very long on a pre-stable release though.
Fortunately, the release cycle is slow, and it's so easy to mix-and-match stable and testing that a lot of folks are probably already halfway there by the time a new stable is released! But there's a security exposure running testing packages as well. They say they'll try to patch testing and unstable packages, after stable, but I don't know how well that works in practice.
For more details:
http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
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