Fedora vs Tao vs CentOs as servers

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Mon Dec 20 17:45:14 UTC 2004


Ed Wilts wrote:
> You won't see your system going to Brazil or Sweden to get security
> updates (changeable in FC3, but the default is to wherever the heck it
> wants to).

Not that there's any problem with this.

Especially not if you enable GPG checking, which guarantees that the RPM
is as it left Red Hat (or whoever built the RPM), and hasn't been
tampered with by Brazilians, Swedes, or, worst of all, those pesky
Brits!

(At least, not *after* it was built...)

James.

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