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Aug 7, 2006, 4:42 AM
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SearchSecurity.com: "Linux patch problems: Your distro may vary"
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Hi,
I just stumbled over an article from SearchSecurity.com which was linked to
in a heise newsticker posting that tries to analyze how fast distributions
react to security vulnerabilities:
http://tinyurl.com/lplfb
Quick chart:
Rank Distro Points/100
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1. Ubuntu 76
2. Fedora Core 70
3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 63
4. Debian GNU/Linux 61
5. Mandriva Linux 54
6. Gentoo Linux 39
7. Trustix Secure Linux 32
8. SUSE Linux Enterprise 32
9. Slackware Linux 30
Rank 6 out of 10 is not a great result -- at least we beat SUSE ;)
Any comments or thoughts about this?
Can we become better?
Are we maybe better than the author pretends?
Does the security team currently face serious problems that need to be
solved, be it inside or outside the security team?
I am just curious and would be glad to get some feedback :)
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Regards,
Wolfram Schlich <wschlich[at]gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/
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SearchSecurity.com: "Linux patch problems: Your distro may vary"
