input needed on Debian

[Bill Davidson]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:35:17 -0600
Gary <gv-list-linuxsxs at mygirlfriday.info> wrote:

> I spent a lot of time with RH, and switched back to SUSE about 8
> months ago, It is fine, excellent distro. I was thinking about moving
> some personal desktops, and maybe a mail/dns server or two over to
> Debian. Don't want Fedora as an offering, not a test bed for RH's
> enterprise, for me, plus poor life cycle. So, I was thinking about
> Debian..
> 
> Woody is the stable version, Sarge their testing v.. It seems to me
> that one of the disadvantages of Debian is that Woody uses older
> versions of programs. If I use the newer Sarge, from what I
> understand, Deb does not support security updates on Sarge, only
> Woody... Is this true?
> 
> Any input / thoughts appreciated.

It's been a little while since I used debian, but not that long. I'm
thinking of going back as well. IIRC, if a package in unstable goes 2
weeks without crashing, it goes into testing. Therefore security updates
go into testing 2 weeks late.

Bill