Debian flamewar (was: Hello?)
bscott at ntisys.com
bscott at ntisys.com
Fri Aug 9 15:15:50 EDT 2002
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, at 1:42pm, Ed Lawson wrote:
>> I also feel I'd be remiss to not point out to the list maintainers that
>> GNU Mailman has a long history of security vulnerabilities. The version
>> currently in use, 2.0.9, is known to be vulnerable to a number of
>> cross-site scripting attacks.
>
> Another reason to like Debian ....
<RANT>
This is what I mean when I complain about Debian users. Debian is not the
only distribution to have security announcements! In fact, as I near as I
can tell from these two advisories
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-147
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-099.html
Red Hat had a fix out for the Mailman vulnerability almost *two months*
before Debian did. Easily installed via "up2date", I might add.
I am all for choices in distributions. I think Debian has a number of
unique and valuable advantages. I think more people should try Debian.
But by Linus's toothbrush, I wish the Debian community would stop acting
like Debian is God's Gift to Linux!
</RANT>
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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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