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Alex Efros wrote: |
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> For now I see only two alternatives for 'no security holes & no critical bugs' |
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> distribution: |
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> 1) Use something like stable Debian/whatever distribution, which was |
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> released some time ago, and has old enough software with good support: |
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> updates with (backported) security fixes and critical bug fixes |
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> (or workarounds). Weakness of this way is having sometimes too old |
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> software, which is unacceptable because your customers will need |
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> features of newer software and you'll have to install & support it |
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> manually. |
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> 2) Believe in Gentoo ARCH=x86 _IS_ 'stable' in all means and spend a little |
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> more time for compiliing/updating/testing. As bonus you'll have fairly |
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> up-to-date system with more features and your customers will love it. :) |
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Not only that, but old (ala Debian/stable) software may be vulnerable too, as bugs that may have |
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seen impossible to exploit are now exploitable because newer explotation techniques appear. :) |
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