Libranet security - how?

[Ken Moffat]

Leon Goldstein wrote:

> Michael Hipp wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking about giving Libranet a whirl ... they said everyone 
>> just uses Debian security announcements.
>>
>> Is this the best way? Can Debian security updates/patches be applied 
>> to a presumably more up-to-date Libranet system without worries?
>> .
>
>
> Libranet is an orthodox Debian distribution, embellished with a 
> simplified installer and an elegant system administration tool 
> (adminmenu.)  As long as you stick to the testing branch all is well.  
> Where beginners get into trouble is doing wholesale upgrading to 
> unstable, and things start breaking.*
>
> *I recommend to people wanting to try Libranet to install it twice.  
> The second install can be a "lab rat" installation for testing update.



Well said. I have 2 libranet installs, one for unstable integration. 
Lately some have said unstable upgrades have been a bit flakey, so 
thought it would be safer to have the 2 seperate. I have a small 
network, 2 linux, 1 winxp, and use samba. Libranet has been my choice 
for quite a while. As Leon said, the installer is much better than 
debian, and the completeness of the packages included is excellent. 
Libranet seems to test what they include, so although it is a mix of the 
debian branches (stable, testing, unstable) it all works.

Secuity is handled in the admin utility, xadminmenu, which updates 
sources and downloads security updates.

As for upgrades, I agree that sticking with testing and libranet sources 
is wise. Of course, I no longer follow my own advice, perferring to have 
a more up to date gnome, mozilla, and a few others. I do not recommend 
the usual total upgrade:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade)
This seems liable to break things. I prefer to upgrade packages as I 
need to, and carefully check what's to be removed before committing.

Anyway, Libranet is a keeper.



-- 
Ken