[RLUG] yum / rhel

[John Dell]

Hi Charles,

Charles Stevenson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:56:08PM -0700, John Dell wrote:
>   
>> If you are running a production server, and don't want to worry about 
>> having to do major upgrades, RHEL/clones give you 5 years of guaranteed 
>> security updates (if you installed early in the release cycle).  That 
>> beats anything else out there that I'm aware of.  Also, FWIW there were 
>> some recent complaints about the turn-around time for debian security 
>> updates.
>>     
>
> What do you mean by that?  One of their staff comes in and performs the
> upgrade without a hitch including all unsupported software?  Or that you
> are privileged with access to their up2date repositories?
>   
Since you have a history with YDL, you may (or may not) appreciate that 
CentOS uses yum as the default updater (not up2date).

Regarding your question, I mean (as you say) that I can access the 
repository to get security updates.

Regarding Debian security, FWIW, there was a recent LWN article the 
broke down response time to security issues by major distro's.  The 
editors were surprised at how Debian had slipped on response time.

Here: http://lwn.net/Articles/149976/
and here: http://lwn.net/Articles/151792/

Regards,
John