On Saturday, 13 August 2016 at 15:01:21 UTC, jkjkx wrote:
On Saturday, 13 August 2016 at 12:37:55 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 19:13:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
I've put Linux Mint on it (which is what they recommend)
Friends don't let friends use Linux Mint:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/
https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
Not mentioned above: Linux Mint's upgrade policy is "format
and reinstall". Their update policy is also "If it ain't
broke, don't try to fix it". No wonder they have internal
security issues.
The comments on the reddit post mitigate the post itself, for
example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/d5vo9l6
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/d5uk29l
Funny, if you keep reading, you'll see that a DEBIAN DEVELOPER
confirmed the OP's post.
The security issue you talk about is probably the fact that
their forums have been hacked earlier this year.
No. The downloads were compromised.
If you see someone being pushed in the back on the stairs and
who falls, what do you do ? Do you blame the guy who falls "hey
you're even not able to stay up" or the guy who pushes
"a****hole, that's not fair"...
Oh, OK. I guess I can then move everyone's forum passwords to
http://forum.dlang.org/files/passwords.txt. If something bad
happens because of that, well, it's not my fault, it wasn't me
doing anything intentionally evil!
