On Wednesday 05 July 2006 20:45, Dave Aitel wrote:
> Questions of the day:
>
> Is there a graph anywhere comparing different linux distributions
> patch speed? Which distro patched the OpenOffice bugs first/last?
Haven't seen one, do you think it's likely to differ to any noticable degree
between the major distros ?
> When will Ubuntu include grsec?
https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu.hardened
Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro started the ubuntu-hardened effort, modelled
after debian hardened, but it hasn't really gone anywhere yet, I had a few
disucssions with him about it around the time the initial Ubuntu releases
(warty/hoary) were gaining ground, lot's of vision, but not a lot of visible
effort. It has very little support and I don't think including any sort of
grsec type feature is at the forefront of canonicals thinking. Shame really,
as a binary based distribution with such a well formed package management
system and well defined lifecycle could really produce a distribution with
some sensible default security measures without too much of a detriment to
usability.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-hardened/2006-June/000150.html
This was the latest mail to the Ubuntu-hardened list which is discussing the
features ear-marked for Edgy. (The same thing happened for Breezy but it
didn't go anywhere then or for Dapper) As you can see there was a real flurry
of excitement on the mailing list regarding the announcement..........
Ubuntu is doing well in usability/popularity, but they could really do with
stepping up the security if they want to continue playing the game.
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With Regards..
Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue
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