Do you trust your Linux distro? Do you think the maintainers provide security and stability? Do you think they audit code? I doubt most of them test anything, as long as it compiles.
Do you trust your Linux distro? Do you think the maintainers provide security and stability...
Blake Hughes
Parker Harris
Sometimes maintainers break stuff on purpose!
Ethan Perez
Sometimes maintainers accidentally your cryptography for 2 years.
Wyatt Nguyen
Sometimes software from the repo doesn't work, but compiling the same source yourself is fine. Many such cases!
Cooper Cook
"If it compiles, good. If it runs, excellent."
Ryan Collins
Don't use debian and you won't have these problems.
Wyatt Bailey
Sounds like Debian problems then.
Ian Diaz
As a Debian user, I'm concerned by some of these things. But all things considered, I trust them more than some other distros - especially distros that just pass whatever upstream does straight on through.
I also rather like the Debian "it doesn't change" definition of stability, since it means that if Debian does break something, I can work around it and then not think about it until the next release, instead of possibly having to keep changing things every week.
Asher Campbell
>especially distros that just pass whatever upstream does straight on through
Those are literally the most trustworthy distros though. I trust what the actual devs are doing over some fags that just maintain packages.
Asher Morgan
I use Ubuntu, and as a business, Canonical have to make sure their product is inside-out functional. It's one thing for a community to build a buggy unreliable OS; it's another thing for a company to release a buggy unreliable OS (in the current year)
Joseph Lee
this is why i use BSDs
super easy to see what the maintainer does
Camden Perez
Seeing how Gentoo is the base for Google's Chrome Os and yes I trust them perfectly. It is in Googles best interest to ensure Gentoo working fine.
Any other distro(especially Arch and Void) are memes.
Asher Myers
Welp. when you're right you're right. was about to install devuan after what 6 years not using Debian. fuck that noise. I'm looking at SUSE or just putting that on work laptop and freebsd on mine. Though, container os and fedora I need to look at
Ryan Bell
This. Debian is the base for Tails, and the Tor project states that debian’s tor package with backported security updates is trustworthy.
Elijah Bailey
or, you could just, you know, install gentoo.
Ethan Reed
If this is true, why didn't he sue that faggot? Copyright law still applies to free software
Justin Martin
WTF? Communication protocols are free of copyright/patents. It's explicitly so to avoid compatibility issues and allow support as a third party. Does this not fall under the same?
Nolan Nguyen
>freebsd
*hugs*
William Diaz
Debian relies on people running testing or unstable and reporting bugs back.
If you want to help out, feel free to do that and report stuff such as But I know you won't OP because you made this thread just to trash talk Debian.
Xavier Evans
>Do you trust your Linux distro?
I don't trust anyone
>Do you think the maintainers provide security and stability?
They try I'd say
>Do you think they audit code? I doubt most of them test anything, as long as it compiles.
Maybe.
OpenSUSE.
Aiden Collins
and that is why I use gentoo and compile everything myself
...in the background while I'm doing something else and blindly assume that whatever just compiled is stable and secure
Lucas Howard
I remember this one well and I am still not at all convinced it was no random "accident". I don't know that it wasn't, but it was really odd. The "reasoning" for the Debian-specific patch made absolutely no sense at the time. It was really bad regardless of it being incompetence or intentional.
In the very real OpenSSL disaster the problem was that Debian decided to screw around with an upstream package in a way that totally broke it's security. I was using Gentoo at the time and I didn't have that problem. Gentoo trusts upstream pretty blindly but the distro itself has those very readable ebuild files. You can very easily see what, if anything, installing a package on Gentoo does in terms of patching, configuration files and so on.