Ubuntu CD's for Free

[A. Khattri]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Net Llama! wrote:

> You have examples to back that up?  I've never had to wait weeks for an
> update from RH.  All of the people i know that use Debian have never
> complained about delays in geting security updates either.

Example: Last year, it took a lot longer for the BIND9 patches to make it
to my Debian boxes than for the Gentoo boxes.

> How does one avoid testing if you're building everything from source?
> That is the exact way to guarnetee that you have to do all the testing,
> because the distro provider hasn't.

Just because you're building from source does not mean that the Gentoo
developers have not tested the build before marking it stable. I only
work with stable packages.


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