Forum OpenACS Q&A: In praise of Debian

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Posted by Stephen van Egmond on
Geez, anything but Red Hat. Every release has either had broken compilers or broken security. Maybe they'll get it right with 8.0...

For the love of ghod, try Debian. You can import .rpm files with the "alien" command.

Especially if this is for a production system. Automatic upgrades to security-hardened packages (such as happens on Debian's 'stable' branch) are key to minimizing security exposure. Just ask the Apache, PHP, and Sourceforge people who were owned because of an unupgraded OpenSSL library.

Debian won't make your toast for you. You still have to do "apt-get upgrade" routinely on your machines. But geez, at least it's possible to stay current without too much pain.

If SuSE can do this too, more power to them. But until Red Hat figures it out, stay the hell away from them.