2014-06-26 16:48:13 +00:00
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title: "Fast world, fast updates"
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2016-02-26 15:19:42 +00:00
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date: 2012-03-27T06:18:43Z
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2014-06-26 16:48:13 +00:00
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tags: [linux]
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permalink: /blog/2012/3/27/fast-world-fast-updates
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published: true
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author:
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name: Gergely Polonkai
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email: gergely@polonkai.eu
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We live in a fast world, that’s for sure. When I first heard about Ubuntu
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Linux and their goals, I was happy: they gave a Debian to everyone, but in
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different clothes. It had fresh software in it, and even they gave support of
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a kind. It was easy to install and use, even if one had no Linux experience
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before. So people liked it. I’ve even installed it on some of my servers
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because of the new package versions that came more often. Thus I got an up to
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date system. However, it had a price. After a while, security updates came
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more and more often, and when I had a new critical update every two or three
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days, I’ve decided to move back to Debian. Fortunately I did this at the time
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of a new release, so I didn’t really loose any features.
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After a few years passed, even Debian is heading this very same way. But as I
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see, the cause is not the same. It seems that upstream software is hitting
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these bugs, and even the Debian guys don’t have the time to check for them. At
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the time of a GNOME version bump (yes, GNOME 3 is a really big one for the
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UN\*X-like OSes), when hundreds of packages need to be checked, security bugs
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show off more often. On the other hand however, Debian is releasing a new
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security update every day (I had one on each of the last three days). This, of
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course, is good from one point of view as we get a system that is more secure,
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but most administrators don’t have maintenance windows this often. I can think
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of some alternatives like Fedora, but do I really have to change? Dear fellow
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developers, please code more carefully instead!
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