Re: Debians security features: Please help us!

2014-05-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 21:53 +0200, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de wrote: > So: Please help us to complete the table. Why didn't you just use the Ubuntu script to automatically fill it out? https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/ubuntu-cve-tracker/master/download/head:/dumpfeatures-2010072211

Debians security features: Please help us!

2014-05-18 Thread herzogbrigit...@t-online.de
Hello everybody, Patrick Schleizer started a great table about the security features in Debian in the Debian wiki. This is the link to the page: https://wiki.debian.org/Security/Features It's an overview of the implemented security features in Debian. Many points in the table are not investigat

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Stanislav Bocinec
sorry, here's proper link to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_kTBIZLoT3VOGOFgTqjkQ3E0e4o_esV71RNzo4JuQI0/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.ge4adadaf_1_645 s. On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Stanislav Bocinec wrote: > Thanks for the nice comparison. I n

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Stanislav Bocinec
Thanks for the nice comparison. I never realized Debian main consists of so many packages, i always considered default ubuntu intallation not so secure due to universe repo enabled by default.. Here is one interesting presentation about Ubuntu trusty 14.04 security features: http://blog.dustinkirk

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Sunday, 2014-05-18 at 14:46:21 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Ubuntu only provides security support for the "main" and "restricted" > archive sections: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#Official_Support > But since the "universe" section is enabled by default, you'll end up > with a l

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
herzogbrigit...@t-online.de schrieb: > Hello there, > I'm a new user of the great Debian distro for my Desktop. But when I talked > to a friend and I told him, that I'm using Debian (Wheezy) for my desktop > computer, he told me that I shoudn't use it because it is not secure. He told > me to u