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brockmasterflex
04-29-2003, 10:59 PM
Hey all,
I was wondering why I always see Linux related sites have Red Hat Security update/patches/fixes/etc... information. My question is why do I ONLY see Red Hat Advisories not Gentoo, Slack, etc...
This may be a stupid query, it's late and I have a cursious mind...
Thanks y'all
unixtool
04-29-2003, 11:17 PM
RedHat has a large personnel group of users, developers, and admin folk who do nothing but surf news groups, CERT, and other intel for security violations and the like. I personally know one of them and he gets about as much sleep as a sysadmin working alone with a 1000 servers. Get the picture?
RedHat is bound and determined to make their distro the best. Sometimes they let things fall between the cracks but mostly they are doing a pretty good job.
HTH
Icarus
04-29-2003, 11:28 PM
Red Hat is the largest (and most sucessful) Linux distrubuter. They employ 6 of the top 10 kernel hackers and have major contracts with Oracle, IBM, HP and Dell. They don't only want to keep everything up to date...they need to!
If you look at http://linuxtoday.com you'll see security posting for Mandrake, Gentoo, SuSE and others...just not as many. Red Hat usually puts them out first, but not all the time. BTW...update your zlib packages ;)
LrngTheHardWay
04-30-2003, 12:35 AM
zlib, MySQL, LPRng, mICQ...all taken care of. ;)
All in all, RH has done a stellar job at keeping patches and updates flowing in a timely manner. It's effort applied to the areas that really matter, IMHO.
brockmasterflex
04-30-2003, 08:45 AM
Originally posted by mahdi
Red Hat is the largest (and most sucessful) Linux distrubuter. They employ 6 of the top 10 kernel hackers and have major contracts with Oracle, IBM, HP and Dell. They don't only want to keep everything up to date...they need to!
If you look at http://linuxtoday.com you'll see security posting for Mandrake, Gentoo, SuSE and others...just not as many. Red Hat usually puts them out first, but not all the time. BTW...update your zlib packages ;)
Makes sense....
Thanks for all the replys
brockmaster
i see many SuSE and Debian security fixes - not only Red Hat.
one thing that was not mentioned is that Red Hat is famous for (at least from what i have heard) fixing bugs and only adding the fixes to their own builds, not sharing the fix with the developers of the "broken" app and the rest of the distros like everyone else does.