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List:       focus-linux
Subject:    Re: Red Hat vs Debian Linux: overall security
From:       "Cristobal Palmer" <cristobalpalmer () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-11-28 18:18:07
Message-ID: 39e2ba090611281018n5874e5d1gb44b403ff4b4bd39 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Debian is _huge_

cmpalmer@ltsp:~/Desktop$ cat allpackages.en.txt |wc -l
17498

...and is much more community-oriented (ie. there are vulnerabilities
in little-used apps that are maintained by a volunteer and not a paid
developer). BTW, you're talking about RHEL, right?

It would make much more sense to compare them apples-to-apples by
narrowing your focus to a minimal install plus certain very common
apps (such as apache).

I'm not saying they're equivalent in terms of security. I'm just
saying that the comparison based on www.securityfocus.com/bid is not a
realistic one.

-CMP

On 27 Nov 2006 17:44:30 -0000, tjanas@austin.rr.com
<tjanas@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> I am evaluating the overall security of Red Hat linux vs Debian.  I've been told \
> that Debian has many more vulnerabilities than Red Hat.  I've also been told that \
> Red Hat is quicker to release security patches than Debian is for the "stable" \
> release.  Can someone point me to a good overall assessment of the two?  Using this \
> tool: www.securityfocus.com/bid  I see that Debian has 17 pages worth of issues but \
> Red Hat has surprisingly few.  Am I misinterpreting the results from this tool? 


-- 
Cristobal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS Student -- ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer
TriLUG Vice Chair
"There are many roads to enlightenment, and thus many roads back to
the One True Debian" --crimsun


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