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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. Now, the smaller distros may not have timely fixes; this is a big reason to go with Debian, RH, SuSE, etc... And the tiniest distros are very small collections designed to do specific things: be firewalls, be micro-web-servers, and so forth. They generally get quick updates because there isn't that much to watch. > > Counterargument: 100 small holes vs 1 or 2 large ones? You haven't been > > reading Bugtraq. > > Should I be? Or will I be inundated? I'm no sysadmin, just a user (and > occasional writer). I don't know what your statement means. Just to > clarify my own terminology by "large" hole I was thinking "Of the sort > that makes the evening news." If you substitute "business pages of the Globe and technical news sites for non-technical people" for "evening news" then yes, MS has several large holes each month. Bugtraq may not be useful to you, as it does try to cover *everything*, but reading the archives for a week would certainly be useful for your education as a technology writer. -dsr- -- Network engineer / pre-sales engineer available in the Boston area. http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr
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