Re: [Sheflug] Re: Newby

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Richard wrote:

> I've seen a few established Red Hatters muttering some dirty words
> just lately.  Thing that worried me was the massive pile of RH updates
> that have been filling up my mailbox for so long now.  When I used RH
> 4 or 5 it wasn't too bad.  Since 6 and above we seem to be sprinting
> round a track to stay still.  There's another crowd who think that
> Mandrake and Definite Linux are much better anyway.  Glad I'm not a
> system admin at a University just now :)

TBH 90% of the security advisories I see affect more than one distro (e.g.
the recent problem with ed, incidentally reported by Alan "Wears a red
hat" Cox). There have been a few (notably the Piranha default password
thing) that have been RedHat only, but not that many.

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