Kurt's Closet varuje pred Debianem 2.2

David Rohleder davro na ics.muni.cz
Středa Srpen 30 21:32:23 CEST 2000


Petr.Novotny na antek.cz (Petr Novotny) writes:

> Dobry den,
> 
> pro ty, co jeste necetli:
> http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000830.html
> 
> Cituji Summary:
> 
> > Debian's goal of a bug free-release hasn't been met. But to be fair,
> > it's not like any software vendor will ever release bug-free software.
> > Debian has done a particularly bad job in my opinion, shipping
> > out-of-date software and especially publicly available network daemons
> > that have root hacks in them. 
> > 
> > If you do go with Debian, you'll have a lot of manual updating ahead
> > of you to bring it up-to-date and secure it. Unfortunately, the
> > argument "apt-get, apt-upgrade" won't work, since many of these
> > updates are not available as dpkg's yet. 
> > 
> > Debian has also ignored a lot of work other vendors have put into
> > making their distributions more secure. If you don't learn from the
> > mistakes and improvements of others, there is little hope. This is
> > especially frustrating in light of Debian's effort to secure various
> > parts of the distribution, using Exim by default instead of Sendmail.
> > Having seen things like that during the install, I had a lot of hope
> > for Debian, but my hopes were dashed to pieces upon closer inspection.
> 


Precti si to jeste jednou. Pribyla tam oficialni omluva.

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David Rohleder						davro na ics.muni.cz
Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic
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