the 'which distro' question

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:42 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Tim Wunder wrote:
> >> On Friday 02 March 2007 9:55:18 am Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >>> Well, can you all comment on why I would need to do this frequent
> >>> upgrading if what I manage to install the first time works well?
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >> Security updates, bug fixes, etc...
> > 
> > Indeed, running a distro without updates is equivalent to running Windows 
> > without updates.  You're going to be left wide open to a large number of 
> > security problems (not to mention bugs) over time.
> > 
> 
> Is this true if I run behind a firewall?  I think we talked about this 
> before:  I have an Apple Airport Extreme network that uses NAT and the 
> impression I got was that was pretty secure.  And I don't run a server 
> visible to the outside world.
> 
> Some distros (like SuSE) have major revisions followed by minor fixes. 
> In the past, I have waited for SuSE to go to, like 9.2 before using it. 
>   Is this the same scheme with Fedora?
Right, that's all the FC numbers, each a major upgrade. Everything in
between is updates to individual packages. When you have both Gnome and
KDE installed on your machine, you'll see quite a few updates. Ric

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