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Debian Struggling With Security

Posted by Zonk on from the invaders-at-the-gates dept.

Masq666 wrote to mention a ZDNet article discussing difficulties Debian is having with security updates. From the article: "...Lack of manpower also appears to be adding to Debian's security woes. Michael Stone, another member of Debian's security team, expressed his frustration to the organisation's security e-mail mailing list in mid-June, saying there was no effective tracking of security problems."

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  1. that's because it's Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    an inherently insecure operating system.

    Compare OpenBSD and any Linux you can think of. 'Nuff said.

  2. Re:Solution is obvious, move to Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Good point.

  3. This is impossible. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Everybody knows that there are no problems whatsoever with Linux or Open Source Software / Free Software. Anybody who claims otherwise is a Micro$oft (the '$' IS mandatory!) shill and should be disregarded.

    All hail Linux!

  4. No Surprise by RickHunter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This shouldn't surprise anyone who's had to deal with a lot of Debian developers. The KDE ones, for example, constantly complain - on public mailing lists, no less! - about being too busy to forward bugs to upstream or merge in fixes. There are some amazing people working for the project, but also a lot of clowns who want to ride the name.

  5. Re:Boring jobs by suitepotato · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Which is exactly the problem with F/OSS. First, it is overloaded with anti-capitalist yahoos who want everything for free, second, the license structure is befuddling and split between several ideas of how such things should work, and three, you have a zillion people writing a zillion things as the base from which to work with and now you're expected to reign in the chaos and somehow defy the very F/OSS model to make money?

    Not conducive to success at all. Meanwhile closed source is still making kick ass money that F/OSS people can only wish they'd ever see. The kind of money that Debian could use.

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  6. Re:Pick any two by Approaching.sanity · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Try Ubuntu.

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