Suggestion for Linux Distro (from PSA: Linux vulnerability)

[Cecil Westerhof]

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Marco Sulla <Marco.Sulla.Python at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 at 19:10, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Both Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS state they have a five year support
>>> life cycle.
>>
>> Yes, but it seems that official security support in Debian ends after
>> three years:
>>
>> "Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a
>> separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a
>> success"
>> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
>>
>> This is the only problem for me.
>
> I am not sure how different the two situations are.  Ubuntu is
> presumably relying on the Debian security team as well as other
> volunteers and at least one company, namely Canonical.

Nope. One important reason that I really hate that people use Ubuntu
for servers is that Ubuntu wants to be up to date. So Ubuntu starts
very close to Debian security wise, but will shift rapidly.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof