Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-04 Thread Nik Th
02.11.2013, 20:00, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com: It might for exmaple allow security updates (which are explicitly hacked out of Linux Mint for Xorg, the kernel, Firefox, the bootloader and various other packages) so that you dont have to go online with a vulnerable system ;) ciao    

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Montag, den 04.11.2013, 13:19 +0200 schrieb Nik Th: 02.11.2013, 20:00, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com: It might for exmaple allow security updates (which are explicitly hacked out of Linux Mint for Xorg, the kernel, Firefox, the bootloader and various other packages) so that you

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-04 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 02.11.2013 16:52, Ben Tinner wrote: I am planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu which will have the GNOME 2 look and feel. For those of you who are subscribed to ubuntu-users, you would have heard about my plans to create this (Anyone interested in a GNOME 2 look and feel

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-04 Thread Nik Th
04.11.2013, 13:45, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com: Am Montag, den 04.11.2013, 13:19 +0200 schrieb Nik Th:  Do you think that Linux Mint is a vulnerable system ? Really ? https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules this is the list of packages it

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-04 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
It is unclear why Linux Mint disables all of their security updates although to some degree they have tried to justify their disabling of kernel updates by suggesting that such updates could make a system unstable and that normal users shouldn't get these kinds of updates. Anyways it is something