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[Ed Hurst]

Timothy Butler wrote:
> Do they do security backports? That's the big deal, in my estimation.  
> When upstream quits doing pure security updates for a given package,  
> RH continues to make sure that security updates in later major/minor  
> releases get backported to the distro's major/minor version.

I seem to recall they simply bump up the version of the affected 
application, built on the same lib environment as the main release. RHEL 
has done this on a few items. For example, in the 4.x release they moved 
from Mozilla 1.x to Seamonkey 1.x, changing all the dependency tags, etc.

> Debian also isn't very well supported by cPanel, which takes it out  
> of consideration for me as a web hosting environment. I like Debian  
> though, no doubt about it.

It seems they prefer you do servers the hard way. For example, I'm 
testing their Lenny AMD64 port, and the only way you'll get any 32-bit 
action is to build a jail for it. The entire system and available 
userland stuff is pure 64-bit.

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Ed Hurst
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