Is Ubuntu More Secure than Debian?

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 The comment (and I paraphrase) was "Do NOT use Debian it is not secure, the packages are old and out of date, use Ubuntu instead".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

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