I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!
I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!
I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!
I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!
I’m not sure what planet you are on but Debian is more stable and secure than anything I have ever tested. Maybe Debian gets a bad rap because of Ubuntu.
I disagree. Stable, yes. But stable as in unchanging (including bug-for-bug compatibility), which imo is not what most users want. It is what server admins want though. Most newbie desktop users don’t realize this about debian based systems, and is one of the sources of trouble they experience.
Debian tries to be secure by back porting security fixes, but they just cannot feasibly do this for all software, and last I checked, there were unaddressed vulnerabilities in debian’s version of software that they had not yet backported (and they had been known for a while). I’m happy to look up the source for you if you’re interested.
Show me a source. I run Debian everywhere including production critical systems. I’ve never had an issue
Maybe start here: https://www.debian.org/security/
Here’s an example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/pgv3wc/debian_chromium_package_has_many_security_issues/
Being able to run a distribution on multiple machines does not mean it is free of vulnerabilities. You’d only know if you’re checking CVEs for each package you use.
A reddit post from 3 years ago is not valid evidence
As if Debian has changed fundamentally since then…
It has
Are you able to demonstrate with supporting evidence?
Why is that? It shows proof of the exact thing I said. If you don’t like that it’s on Reddit, I can copy paste it here.
If you want more examples, I’m happy to provide them. Here is another example:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/linux
Debian is for sure not more secure than most other distributions/operating systems. (Might be true for what you tested).
Not even mentioning the famous Debian weak SSH key fuck up (ups), Debian is notoriously understaffed to take care of back ports of security patches for everything which is not the kernel/web server/Python etc. (and even there I would not be too sure) and don’t get me started on starting services/opening ports on an apt install etc.