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By whom? Because I can assure you that it’s not true. Debian patches a lot for completely bonker reasons. They do it to support architectures nobody uses. They
by WastingMyTime89 4y ago
By whom? Because I can assure you that it’s not true.
Debian patches a lot for completely bonker reasons. They do it to support architectures nobody uses. They do it to remove part of packages for purely ideological motives. They do it to split packages into multiple parts making work harder for upstream when bugs are found. They do it to integrate with their own subpar tools. Sometimes they introduce major bugs along the way like the infamous OpenSSL one.
I understand people liking the fact that Debian is community maintained but the security track record is simply not there.
- bastardoperator 4y agoVerizon, GitHub, Godaddy, Cisco, Google, NASA. If you don't like a debian package you can roll your own which is dead simple. I've never worked for a company that is 100% reliant on OS provided packages. Seems like it is true...
- _-david-_ 4y agoAre you sure all those companies use Debian? I thought Verizon and GoDaddy were using CentOS. Also Google's Debian is customized might not really be appropriate to still call it Debian.