At 06:06 AM 8/29/2002, you wrote: >This is lamest excuse I have ever heard, and just shows Sun's complete lack >of competance as far as the Cobalts go, or at least lack of willingness to >put the proper resources into it. I used to work for a company that made >infrastructure equipment for telecommunications carriers (Sprint, Verizon, >Voicestream, etc). These products were way more complicated than the Cobalt >and we had no problem releasing timely patches that worked. The fact is that >the Cobalt is a simple product - a basic linux box with a web gui. Sun takes >a month or more to release security patches that other Linux vendors release >in hours.
Because they don't understand how Linux works... they only know Slowaris.... >I don't care about having all the latest and greatest features, I don't care >if third party software runs on the box, but security issues MUST be >resolved as soon as they are known. Sun is failing miserably on this. > >When are we going to get a patch for /usr/lib/authenticate? Well sun is taking after microsoft.... they are emulating the one company they hate the most... why??? you guess is as good as mine. >Tom > Paul Jacobs / SR. Network Manager http://www.adv-data.com MCP 2000, A+, CCNA, Network+ _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
