Debian co-ordinates between quite a few hardware types, that takes time. If at the end of the day you believe Mandrake is better go install Mandrake. Before you do take a look at how many bugs/patches Mandrake has announced v Debian over say the last year. I wouldnt be surprised if 1) Debian is on average quicker, 2) the packaging system and pre-work the developers do means some of these bugs are already ironed out so are never exploitable, so Debian never needs to release an advisory.
regards Thing -----Original Message----- From: Bernard Lheureux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jeremy T. Bouse Subject: Re: Sendmail vulnerability : is Debian falling behind? On Monday 03 March 2003 23:06, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > > In case noone noticed, news of a Sendmail vulnerability appeared > > on Slashdot. The really interesting piece of the story for me was the > > portion of the blurb with said "...RedHat and OpenBSD have already issued > > patches.....links to an update from SuSE, too". Mandrake released patched versions for all of their versions a few hours ago too... -- (?- Bernard Lheureux Gestionnaire des MailingLists ML, TechML, LinuxML //\ http://www.bbsoft4.org/Mailinglists.htm ** MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] v_/_ http://www.bbsoft4.org/ <<<<<< * >>>>>> http://www.portalinux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
