I guess they're covering their arses now Linux is being hailed as a virus-free and more secure operating system, which is of course true but there are lots of people out there with lots of money who would go to any lengths to discolour free software. Many security bugs are also only executable on the console so are less of a threat I guess.
Personally I'm very impressed with FreeBSD's ports which makes updating a doddle, and Debian's one-line kernel upgrade path - depends whether you want the latest and greatest craze or not.
Steve
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 20:13, Brett Parker wrote:
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 08:01:00PM +0100, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 07:19:12PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
What do other users who are less fortunate and on 56k dial up do, persevere the lengthy download or simply ignore most of which seem to be local vulnerabilities ?
I roll my own kernel and keep an eye out for security updates etc. keeping the kernel updated this way is quite easy as I can just grab the patches which are usually a couple of megs max.
Sounds familiar, but with the extra added bonus of access to bandwidth at work and an MMC to bring home new kernel sources if required. (Of course, my machine won't let me compile bugger all at the moment, so I cheat even *further* and download them on a remote hosted debian boxen, make debian packages out of them, and just transfer the 10-12Mb kernel-image using rsync with -P (partial and progress, much prettyness :)))
And away I go to play with this jail somemore and see if I can break works firewall again :)
Cheers,