Corporate Anti-Virus strategies

[gboyce at buddha.badbelly.com]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:20:15AM -0400, Duane Morin wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> > > Counterargument: Red Hat and Debian, among others, provide single-source
> > > fixes.
> > 
> > Is this valid in general, so for isntance if the user was handed a CD with 
> > Knoppix or Gentoo on it would they still have a single-source of fixes 
> > available to them?  Or is it strictly for the big distributions?
> 
> Knoppix is a special case: it's built off of Debian, so Debian fixes
> apply. Gentoo is now big enough to have their own fixes available.

But Knoppix is a CD based Live distribution.  The Debian patches may 
apply, but there's a big difference between someone who can run Knoppix, 
and someone who can rebuild Knoppix with updates applied.