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On Tuesday 07 December 2004 12:12 pm, Mariusz Zalewski wrote: |
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> Andrew Cowie wrote: |
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> > Gentoo is excellent from a security standpoint; either a version bump or |
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> > a backported patch tends to be made available very quickly, especially |
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> > on the various things that tend to be in production use. |
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> Did any institution or organization made some measurement? I mean - how |
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> much time does it take from 0 day (when the critical bug is discovered |
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> in the most popular server services: ssh, ftp, apache...) to the time, |
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> when new ebuild is available from emerge? Did anybody made this |
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> measurement? |
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As of apache, I can say, we do our best to come up with patches ASAP. |
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However, I assume that the herd responsible for openssh and ftp-alike |
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server programs will do the same as well. |
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I see no need to fear about here. |
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We all take our job serious and though, do our best to fullfill |
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the endusers whishes. |
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Best regards, |
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Christian Parpart. |
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