On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 01:16:01AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > [2] Of course firewalls don't help you in the end if you start exposing > services. Which is kinda what you have to do with boxen like > london.pm.org if they're going to be useful...oh well.
Yeeesss.. but it can be mitigated drastically by having an extremely easy to use patch system. # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade Many of the apps on london.pm.org were old-ish & didn't seem to be being upgraded all that often (there is benefit to not fixing something that ain't broke for sure) -- when people's time is volunteered any time saving measure is really useful. I dunno how Red Hat deals with this but I don't think it's as easy as Debian's. Anyone know one way or the other? How shit *is* Red Hat these days? Is it less abysmal than it used to be? Debian++ Paul
