Crazy dependancy issues in f7?

Thomas Tschoepke Soares ttsoares at cristhom.com.br
Tue Jul 3 18:23:01 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 14:04 +0200, Frank wrote:

>   Each program that is installed on a productive server rises the risk
> of a backdoor
>  or similar problems. This means: even when X is not running on a
> server it might
>  contain a bug that allows a regular user to get root access. You do
> not want that!
> 
>   Therefore a service should only (!) contain the programs needed to
> run and nothing
>  more.

So, use a real server type distribution... Sure is not Fedora !!!

Slackware and Gentoo for instance or, even better, some flavor of BSD.

Fedora, Debian, Mandriva, Knoppix, etc... are just for desktops and SOHO
server.




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