[Tfug] Debian struggling with security

[Matthew Eskes]

You know, to be honest I could have said that the security issues with Linux 
and Debian were to be expected. When you think about it, Linux (the Kernel, 
more or less) is really starting to become a big pile of buggy code. Dont 
get me wrong, I like having all the functionality that its now providing 
which really is better than that in the 2.4x line, but I feel that they 
arent taking enough time in bugfixes and they are starting to add new 
features way to fast without fixing any bugs that they may have introduced 
with them ( The infamous w.x.y.z subversioning they now have) and I think 
that its starting to affect the overall quality of the kernel. For those 
reasons alone, I am starting to think more seriously about switching over to 
either Free or OpenBSD since they are known to audit their code to no end. I 
realise that this will not fix all the bugs since there is not one piece of 
bugfree software, but as I like to say, any small advantage I can get I will 
take.

Matt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "t takahashi" <gambarimasu at gmail.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Debian struggling with security


i was curious whether ubuntu was any different, so i searched for "debian
vs. ubuntu".

the first item was ian murdoch's blog, where he was critical of a de facto
fork.  i was flabbergasted.   the comments were overwhelmingly
of the "debian is history" variety.  could that be just that it was
before sarge's release, or is ubuntu taking over?  i was so
surprised that i never did find out about whether ubuntu is
more or less secure than debian :-).

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