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Eee PC security or lack thereof

Posted Feb 14, 2008 22:01 UTC (Thu) by jmm (subscriber, #34596)
Parent article: Eee PC security or lack thereof

> A vendor installing Fedora 8 or Debian etch today will be behind on
> countless security updates. 

Debian releases regular point releases of it's stable and oldstable release, which incorporate
all previous security updates.

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Posted Feb 22, 2008 18:23 UTC (Fri) by ofeeley (guest, #36105) [Link]

Similarly the Fedora Unity Project produce "re-spins" which are installation media based on
the originals but with the most recent updates included. Very handy for avoiding the need to
do network updates after installation.

  http://fedoraunity.org/re-spins