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lsibn
08-17-2001, 08:23 PM
Reason I ask being that I'm running Redhat 7.1, and more of my day goes to actively looking for new bulletins, and when I find them, actually trying to get and install up to date packages.

Isn't there some place offering distro-specific mailings, say, every week, detailing all of the updates (and or where to get them) for your particular distro?

I tried securityfocus.com, but didn't see what I was after. I'm opposed to mailing lists, but I don't see a more efficient way to monitor everything. As an additional gripe with securityfocus, an 8px font at 1600x1200, in Mozilla is not even visible. It's a collection of dots resembling Braille...

So, anybody know of any good mailing lists?

Craig McPherson
08-29-2001, 12:37 AM
I haven't used Redhat in a long time, but I could swear I once saw a security announcements mailing list on the security fixes section of their website (though they probably called it "errata," the same way Microsoft refers to bugs as "issues).

Debian has an excellent security mailing list -- announcements are sent out as soon as vulnerabilities are discovered, and updated packages generally hit the FTP servers within a couple hours.