On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:33:38 AM Craig White wrote: >> [Ubuntu is] different - not better, not worse (save for the fact that with >> Ubuntu I have been able to get timely updates this year). Also, I much >> prefer their packaging of Apache & BIND9 to Red Hat's. > [snip] >> If your expectation was that you could take your limited knowledge base and >> apply it equally across all Linux distributions and expect it to behave as a >> Red Hat derived system, then all other distributions will disappoint you. > > While this is not the CentOS-advocacy list, I do want to mention that if the > tradeoff is between a secure (from a firewall and mandatory access control > (MAC) standpoint) system and a system with more timely updates, I think I'd > rather have the system that is more secure out of the box on the firewall > side, SElinux (the upstream-preferred MAC solution) notwithstanding. ---- I would generally agree with this (brevity is not your strongest trait)
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