On Wed, Jun 11 2008, Robert Watson wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> From a security standport, backporting fixes to previous versions of ports
>> creates a difficulty. It's much harder to tell, for example, if a RedHat
>> "port" is vulnerable or not, because RedHat uses their ow
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:36:28PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
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> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Paul Schmehl wrote:
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> >From a security standport, backporting fixes to previous versions of ports
> >creates a difficulty. It's much harder to tell, for example, if a RedHat
> >"port" is vulnerable or not
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Paul Schmehl wrote:
From a security standport, backporting fixes to previous versions of ports
creates a difficulty. It's much harder to tell, for example, if a RedHat
"port" is vulnerable or not, because RedHat uses their own proprietary
versioning system to define "whe
--On Wednesday, June 11, 2008 16:54:02 +0100 Robert Watson
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Andy Kosela wrote:
Redhat/CentOS is more reliable here as backports involves both security and
bug fixes, plus even new hardware enhancements.
In the FreeBSD environment, we call the
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Andy Kosela wrote:
Redhat/CentOS is more reliable here as backports involves both security and
bug fixes, plus even new hardware enhancements.
In the FreeBSD environment, we call the place that gets a blend of security
and bug fixes, plus new minor feature and driver enh
Thanks for the answer!
I'm glad someone answered me a human way,
because two times before, I wasn't answered that way
(well... my posts were angry and incomplete but...that's why i didn't
continued to post...my bad).
now on topic:
Marian Hettwer wrote:
Hi there,
some thoughts to your problem
Robert,
Thank you for your insights. I think that this agreement between users and
developers does occur. The proper balance between rapid development vs
long term stability is the platform through which such agreement can be
achieved. It's up to the Core Team to reasonably steer the Project in suc
Hi there,
some thoughts to your problem in regards to Debian administration time
needed vs. FreeBSD administration time needed.
I believe I can make a point there, since I have 600 debian boxes under my
hood but still am a FreeBSD advocate ;-)
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:53:02 +0300, Anton - Valqk <[
