Mint does need to make some changes on its security approach, in my opinion, but Ubuntu is not free from controversy, either. Read this article: " http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2207679/mark-shuttleworth-defends-ubuntu-1210-amazon-integration ".
Cheers, Elcaset On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkere...@ubuntu.com>wrote: > On Oct 17, 2012 8:04 PM, "Dale Snell" <ddsn...@frontier.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:36:01 -0700 > > John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:06:27 -0700 > > > Benjamin Kerensa <bkere...@ubuntu.com> dijo: > > > > > > > >I would suggest against Mint.... Not because of the politics their > > > >found brings in that I personally dislike but instead because by > > > >default they disable Kernel Security Updates and also do not announce > > > >CVE's to their users. > > > > > > What are CVEs? > > > > CVE is an initialism standing for Common Vulnerabilities and > > Exposures. Basically a system of reporting security exploits and > > their fixes. A lot of the bugfixes I see for Fedora are CVE security > > fixes. > > Yeah Red hat does a lot of CVE fixes they have a lot of developers but > Ubuntu and Debian do their fair share. Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora publish > CVE reports to keep their users aware of security issues affecting apps > which Mint does not and further they disable Kernel Security Updates > because they feel they are a threat no other distro does this. > > > > > Check out <http://cve.mitre.org/> if you want more details. > > > > --Dale > > > > -- > > Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate it when you do that. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en K Desktop Environment- Experience Freedom & User Friendliness http://kde.org/ Free Lossless Audio Codec https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Flac Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug