Re: [UUG/MLUG] a question and a thought

[David Drum <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Quoth Rich Tollerton;;:

> 2. It's occurred to me that having a central distribution system for
> Linux CDs on campus would be a Very Good Thing. It would help people
> get upgrades faster, and discourage people from unnecessarily spending
> bandwidth on downloading distributions.

I would discourage this as CDs have a lifetime beyond the security holes
that make them dangerous.  That is, someone installing off of an old CD
is doing oneself a disservice, because the version is more than likely
insecure.  If I could tell you the overall distribution of reported
security incidents within MOREnet, you would never burn a Linux CD-ROM.
Sorry to have to cite unverifiable figures, but they are an incident
waiting to happen.

Regards,

David K. Drum
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