[you in this article refers to all administrators everywhere, not the original poster, please don't take it personally]
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, alex wrote: > Has the Linux security bubble burst? Without reading the article, and at the risk of making myself look foolish with crossposting to a gaggle of lists. What security bubble? Oh, nevermind, readng the first paragraph its some "Security Expert" making sure that they can make some copy. I'm pretty impressed by these sorts of articles that assume that systems administrators aren't rooted in 'reality'. That every one of us is some sort of zelot just trying to get linux into places with empty promises of 'its more secure' and 'they fix bugs faster'. Use the software with the best merits. If your merits happen to include that its non-proprietary, don't fool yourself (nor your employer) into some game of 'its more secure'. Don't misrepresent the work that you do. I don't think we would be seeing these articles if there wasn't some form of zeolotry going on to misle upper management. Please 'sell' the merits of the software on the merits. However, one point I do see, about security fixes in decent time from source to distribution form seems to focus on product lifecycle rather than true experience and actual facts. I would love to see a comparison of distributions that shows how deticated many of the Linux distributions are at distributing stable and secure fixes to users in a timely fashion. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]