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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Chris Wolfe wrote:
> My main reason for switching from RH:
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5103510.html?tag=fd_nbs_ent
> "Another difference between the two versions is that Red Hat won't
> guarantee patches for security holes and bugs for Fedora. "There is no
> formal commitment about errata support," Young said."
Is Debian now offering a *guarantee*?? I don't think so. Guarantees do
not come cheap. No GNU software comes with a guarantee.
> So how long will a vulnerability sit around before RH issues a fix? It
> sounds like Fedora will be for developers mostly, and I want to run as
> secure a box at home as possible. I know, I know, "run a *BSD", etc! :)
No longer than Debian or other Linux distros, I wouldn't think.
> Also, there was an article not long ago where RH's Szulik basically
> conceded the desktop to Windows.
And Debian is going to take over the desktop from Microsoft?
Mike
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