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Fast world, fast updates
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:date: 2012-03-27T06:18:43Z
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:category: blog
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:tags: linux
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:url: blog/2012/3/27/fast-world-fast-updates.html
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:save_as: blog/2012/3/27/fast-world-fast-updates.html
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:status: published
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:author: Gergely Polonkai
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We live in a fast world, that’s for sure. When I first heard about Ubuntu Linux and their goals,
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I was happy: they gave a Debian to everyone, but in different clothes. It had fresh software in
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it, and even they gave support of a kind. It was easy to install and use, even if one had no
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Linux experience 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 date system.
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However, it had a price. After a while, security updates came more and more often, and when I had
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a new critical update every two or three days, I’ve decided to move back to Debian. Fortunately I
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did this at the time 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 see, the cause is
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not the same. It seems that upstream software is hitting these bugs, and even the Debian guys
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don’t have the time to check for them. At the time of a GNOME version bump (yes, GNOME 3 is a
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really big one for the UN\*X-like OSes), when hundreds of packages need to be checked, security
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bugs show off more often. On the other hand however, Debian is releasing a new security update
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every day (I had one on each of the last three days). This, of course, is good from one point of
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view as we get a system that is more secure, but most administrators don’t have maintenance
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windows this often. I can think of some alternatives like Fedora, but do I really have to change?
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Dear fellow developers, please code more carefully instead!
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