Security updates are too slow or none existant

Ernest L. Williams Jr. ernesto at ornl.gov
Sun Feb 8 00:25:18 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 18:51, William Hooper wrote:
> Nathan G. Grennan said:
> >   The difference in speed of release of updates, or the release of the
> > updates at all seems to have greatly changed with time between Red Hat
> > Linux 9 and Fedora Core 1.
> 
> Have you read the FAQ?
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/about/faq/
> What is the errata policy for The Fedora Project?
> 
> If you want guarantees buy RHEL.
The Debian solution seems more reasonable!  Why don't you just get these
security updates into Fedora like some of the other reputable linux
distros e.g. Debian.



> 
> Also, compairing one release to another doesn't make sense.  RHL 9 has had
> kernel updates that FC 1 didn't need because it was already patched.
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
-- 
Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>





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