Am Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:17:51 -0500 schrieb Carlos Williams <carloswill@xxxxxxxxx>: > How does Arch Linux far behind in security as compared to Debian. > Perhaps I caught this conversation late but I would like to know what > makes Debian better in aspects of security -vs- Arch? Can anyone > please explain? Debian keeps extremely outdated package versions in its repos - for "stability" *cough* - and needs to patch all of these packages regularly to fix the whole security bugs of these outdated packages. So they need a separate security team. Arch Linux is bleeding edge, is at least not much less if not more stable than Debian, because it usually only installs stable upstream releases, and therefore has always the latest upstream security fixes. If a security bug is found it should be filed to and fixed by upstream anyway. Greetings, Heiko
