brk bug and debian

[Mike Small]

You don't think that's a good idea after a compromise?
Here's a complete report of the break in and their recovery.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2003/msg00003.html

It more or less satisfied me enought that I'll stay 
with debian.  Tried gentoo once.  I didn't think it 
really had much to add over using some combination of 
debian unstable, experimental and/or source packages.  
They don't seem to have nearly as many maintainers yet.  
On the other hand, emerge seems more straight forward 
for a user to mess with himself if a package isn't being 
kept up.  At least it did when I looked at it, they seemed to 
be adding features and releasing new versions of
portage at break neck speed, so one day maybe
their packages will be as obscure to me as .deb 
packages.

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:27:01PM -0500, Bob Keyes wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, miah wrote:
> 
> > Debian got owned by the brk bug, had most of their servers owned... While they 'fix' things all maintainers are locked out.   Its been all over every news site for the last 2 weeks.
> 
> While I know they were hacked, I didn't know mnters were still locked out.
> This strikes me as remarkably stupid. Time to switch to gentoo, maybe .
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