Today I am doing a bit of a reaction video to a statement made by one of the participants of a zoom conference hosted by the Linux Saloon about 3 weeks ago. I am not naming any names, nor do i mean this to be an attack against that person. This video is meant to show how to evaluate a statement like that and determine if it is true or false. The comment (and I paraphrase) was "Do NOT use Debian it is not secure, the packages are old and out of date, use Ubuntu instead". There is of course a couple of immediate red flags, first the statement is inflammatory, and does not succinctly describe the bounds of the statement, for example is this about the Workstation products or the Server products? Second what is the definition the person is using for secure. I will be limiting my definition of secure by to what degree of hardening is applied to the system as a starting point. My plan is to make a 2nd part of this video and repeat the experiment for the Workstation versions of Ubuntu 22.04+ and Debian 11.5+. I am hoping you will find this video as a possible method to use to evaluate different questions like this one, so we can arrive at a conclusion that is possible for you to reproduce. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Is Ubuntu more Secure than Debian? 03:16 How to determine if Ubuntu is more secure 06:11 Scientific Method 06:43 Step 1 - Ask a question 07:39 Step 2 - Do Background Research 10:36 Step 3 - Write the Hypothesis 11:32 Step 4 - Test Hypothesis by running some experiments 14:25 Step 5 - Analyze the Data from the experiments 15:57 Step 6 - Report the Results 18:55 Ubuntu 22.04 Experiment 24:50 Ubuntu 22.04 Hardening 30:03 Debian 11 Results 33:17 Comparing Ubuntu 22.04 with Debian 11.5 38:47 Final Thoughts 46:12 Outro Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DJWare Follow me: Twitter @djware55 Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/don.ware.7758 Discord: https://discord.gg/hQcShnh Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/djware27 "Brightly Fancy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 "Militaire Electronic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Werq by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4616-werq License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Industrial Cinematic by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3909-industrial-cinematic License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music Used in this video "NonStop" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License #secure #ubuntu #debian