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FLAMEBAIT CentOS - the new Debian!

Posted Mar 29, 2011 15:12 UTC (Tue) by jubal (subscriber, #67202)
In reply to: *FLAMEBAIT* CentOS - the new Debian! by Darkmere
Parent article: Supporting CentOS

@darkmere the only difference between Debian and $some_big_corpo is that you actually did learn about the issue and you did learn about it from (somewhat embarassed) Debian people themselves.

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*FLAMEBAIT* CentOS - the new Debian!

Posted Mar 29, 2011 15:41 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

As far as Linux distribution vendors are concerned, they disclose when a security problem happens and if there is a errata to be published, they will and not just hide it. Enough history here including

http://www.redhat.com/security/data/openssh-blacklist.html

There is no reason to suggest otherwise.

*FLAMEBAIT* CentOS - the new Debian!

Posted Mar 29, 2011 23:39 UTC (Tue) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link]

As far as Linux distribution vendors are concerned, they disclose when a security problem happens and if there is a errata to be published, they will and not just hide it.

Yes, and Red Hat seems to be much more diligent than your usual $big_corpo. (I did not want to make an impression that I'm writing about RH; the way Red Hat gives back to the community, and the quality of code produced there seem to be much above the average).