Canonical Developer Warns About Banking With Linux Mint

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 18, 2013 @10:30AM from the family-fight dept.

sfcrazy writes "Ubuntu developer Oliver Grawert does not prefer to do online banking with Linux Mint. In the official mailing list of the distribution, Ubuntu developers stated that the popular Ubuntu derivative is a vulnerable system and people shouldn't go for online banking on it. One of the Ubuntu developers, Oliver Grawert, originally pointed out that it is not necessary that security updates from Ubuntu get down to Linux Mint users since changes from X.Org, the kernel, Firefox, the boot-loader, and other core components are blocked from being automatically upgraded." Clement Lefebvre, the Linux Mint project founder, has since made a statement and confirmed that Oliver Grawert seems "more opinionated than knowledgeable" adding "the press blew what he said out of proportion."

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Re:like we needed more ammo by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-18 10:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Reminds me of the http://xkcd.com/435/ but wtih plain vanilla Debian instead of Mathemeticians.
what? by MickyTheIdiot · 2013-11-18 10:43 · Score: 3, Funny

The makers of Zeitgeist are concerned about privacy??
Re:like we needed more ammo by fisted · 2013-11-18 11:06 · Score: 4, Funny

Nice to be on top with LFS, right?
Wait.. Oh, Hey, we didn't see you guys all the way over there!
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