Red Hat Linux & Fedora (fwd)

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:00, Eric Wood wrote:
> Mark W. Jeanmougin wrote:
> > The advantage to enthusiast users is that Fedora will provide more
> > software and it will be updated quicker to ensure that people are
> 
> RedHat has always been known for getting security errata out the door days
> before the other distro guys.  Now, it is uncertain if errata updates will
> be released in a timely manner - will RH still step up to the plate in
> regards to this?.  For example, if Fedora was out and the openssh bug was
> found, how would it have be fixed. 

well, for example there were no fewer than 5 of us on #fedora and on the
freshrpms mailing list who had applied the same patches and pushed
functional packages before red hat did for the openssh problems.

-sv