philosophical issue: slackware vrs redhat

[Nathan Meyers]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:22:04PM -0800, Hugh Rutledge wrote:
> I'm getting a recommendation that our next incarnation
> or remote email/web server run slackware rather than
> redhat.  The recommendation is based on slackware
> being less popular therefore less attractive for
> hackers but being as advanced as redhat in all the
> areas that a remote apache server needs.  Are there
> any areas in which you feel slackware suffers in
> comparison to redhat as a remote server os?

Do hackers care about choice of distros?

You're running the same web and email server software with the same
security holes on either distro - RH has a nice system for distributing
security patches, does Slackware?

Nathan Meyers
nmeyers at javalinux.net