>>> chewie at wookimus.net 03/22/04 05:12PM >>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:11:01PM -0600, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote: > Just a guess, they looked at Debian, saw that the version numbers > weren't current, and assumed that Debian didn't update the software. > Debian security team backports security patches to the version of the > software currently in stable. (They're crazy...) To further expound upon this, Debian doesn't introduce newer versions of software into the Stable release because of the potential incompatibilities such changes would introduce. They are a bit crazy, but the guarantee that your software won't change in a production environment is a very strong motivator. Redhat has done this too, for similar reasons I suspect. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list