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2006/8/7, Wolfram Schlich <lists@×××××××××××××××.org>: |
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> Hi, |
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> I just stumbled over an article from SearchSecurity.com which was linked to |
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> in a heise newsticker posting that tries to analyze how fast distributions |
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> react to security vulnerabilities: |
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> http://tinyurl.com/lplfb |
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> Quick chart: |
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> |
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> Rank Distro Points/100 |
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> ---- ------------------------- ---------- |
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> 1. Ubuntu 76 |
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> 2. Fedora Core 70 |
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> 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 63 |
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> 4. Debian GNU/Linux 61 |
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> 5. Mandriva Linux 54 |
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> 6. Gentoo Linux 39 |
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> 7. Trustix Secure Linux 32 |
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> 8. SUSE Linux Enterprise 32 |
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> 9. Slackware Linux 30 |
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> |
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> Rank 6 out of 10 is not a great result -- at least we beat SUSE ;) |
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> Any comments or thoughts about this? |
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> Can we become better? |
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> Are we maybe better than the author pretends? |
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> Does the security team currently face serious problems that need to be |
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> solved, be it inside or outside the security team? |
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Working with many distros - I have noticed only one minus of gentoo - |
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emerge system. That's why gentoo is placed 6th... |
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Wojciech Ziniewicz | jid:zeth@××××××.pl |
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http://silenceproject.org | http://zetho.wordpress.com |
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