Re: Why no security updates for Linux?

From: Renegade (inv_at_lid.net)
Date: 04/24/05 

Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:34:27 GMT

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:34:39 -0400, Robert Glueck wrote:

> This is a beginner's question. I've been using Xandros v.2.0.1 for
> almost a year, and during that time Xandros has issued only one "general
> security update". That was in July 2004, nine months ago. Surely,
> since that time security vulnerabilities and bugs must have been
> discovered in the kernel (v.2.4.22) and/or in the hundreds of pieces of
> software that make up the Xandros Standard distribution that would
> require patches or fixes. Yet no word on that from Xandros.

Maybe Xandros only issues security updates for the Xandros specific parts
of their distro, and the user is supposed to get the other updates from
Debian?

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