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Re: [inbox] Re: Linux (in)security
From: Chris Ruvolo <chris+fulldisc () ruvolo net>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:42:07 -0700
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:15:07PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
In 2003 there have been 43 security advisories for SUSE Linux according to SUSE's website: http://www.suse.com/de/security/announcements/index.html RedHat has had 53 during the same time period: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh9-errata-security.html Debian has had 176 during the same time period: http://www.debian.org/security/2003/ (Makes me wonder if the other vendors are really being honest. Is Debian that bad? Or just much more thorough, forthright and conscientious than the others?)
I think there are two factors in regard to Debian. The first is that there are many more packages in Debian than other distributions. The second is that there have been security audits of several programs. Thanks to Steve Kemp for his auditing work. See his results here: http://www.steve.org.uk/Debian/audited.html -Chris
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- RE: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Paul Schmehl (Oct 23)
- RE: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Andy Wood (Oct 23)
- RE: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Paul Schmehl (Oct 23)
- Re: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Dan Wilder (Oct 23)
- Re: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Paul Schmehl (Oct 23)
- Re: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Peter Busser (Oct 24)
- Re: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Shawn McMahon (Oct 24)
- RE: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Arcturus (Oct 23)
- Re: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Peter Busser (Oct 24)
- Re: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Shawn McMahon (Oct 24)
- Re: [inbox] Re: Linux (in)security Chris Ruvolo (Oct 24)
- Re: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 24)
- Re: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security Henning Brauer (Oct 30)
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- Re: RE: Linux (in)security Peter Busser (Oct 23)
- Re: RE: Linux (in)security Ron DuFresne (Oct 23)
- Linux Exec Shield (was: Linux (in)security) Chris Ruvolo (Oct 23)
- Re: Linux Exec Shield (was: Linux (in)security) Peter Busser (Oct 23)
- Re: Linux Exec Shield (was: Linux (in)security) Arjan van de Ven (Oct 23)
- Re: Linux Exec Shield (was: Linux (in)security) Chris Ruvolo (Oct 24)