Re: BSD more secure? was: Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
"Morel Bérenger" wrote: Le Sam 2 mars 2013 4:44, Miles Fidelman a écrit : Yaro Kasear wrote: I don't know if Debian's the most SECURE distribution. It doesn't really have a "hardened profile" or anything like what Gentoo offers. (Gentoo isn't a prime example of a secure Linux system, I more po

Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-03 Thread Brad Alexander
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Good point. And when you start talking security to the point of serious > testing and configuration control, I believe there are very few > distributions that are on the DoD approved product list. I've tried to stay out of this thread, but

Re: BSD more secure? was: Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, "Morel B?renger" wrote: > Le Sam 2 mars 2013 4:44, Miles Fidelman a ?crit : > > Yaro Kasear wrote: > > > >> I don't know if Debian's the most SECURE distribution. It doesn't > >> really have a "hardened profile" or anything like what Gentoo offers. > >> (Gentoo isn't a prime ex

BSD more secure? was: Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-03 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Sam 2 mars 2013 4:44, Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Yaro Kasear wrote: > >> I don't know if Debian's the most SECURE distribution. It doesn't >> really have a "hardened profile" or anything like what Gentoo offers. >> (Gentoo isn't a prime example of a secure Linux system, I more point >> to the co

Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Yaro Kasear wrote: I don't know if Debian's the most SECURE distribution. It doesn't really have a "hardened profile" or anything like what Gentoo offers. (Gentoo isn't a prime example of a secure Linux system, I more point to the concept of having a "hardened" base available, whihc Debian doe

Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-01 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 03/01/2013 05:19 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 01 March 2013 22:33:37 Dick Thomas wrote: Debian is always out of date and even the "stable" is unsecure as its backported fixes rather than updates Sorry to answer piecemeal. Debian stable starts to go out of date as soon as it is released

Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-01 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > I have had a problem with chromium, but that has its own repository. Filename: pool/main/c/chromium-browser/chromium_25.0.1364.97-1_amd64.deb -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 01 March 2013 22:33:37 Dick Thomas wrote: > Debian is always out of date and even the "stable" is unsecure as > its backported fixes rather than updates Sorry to answer piecemeal. Debian stable starts to go out of date as soon as it is released, or even before, while it was still test

Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 01 March 2013 22:33:37 Dick Thomas wrote: > that packages outside of the main Repo aren't tested as well as > the main so are prone to failure or bugs The first of these propositions is true, the second false. Several of the repos are very well tested indeed and rock solid (e.g. main a

Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 01 March 2013 22:33:37 Dick Thomas wrote: > Me and my lug have a weekly radio show \o/ Where? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2013030