Noah Kantrowitz <noah <at> coderanger.net> writes: > > The whole python.org infrastructure is built on an OS kernel written by someone > > who thinks security issues are normal bugs. AFAIK there is no plan to switch to > > OpenBSD. > > This is news to me, we specifically run Ubuntu LTS because Canonical's security response team has a proven > track record of handling issues. If you mean that Linus doesn't handle security issues well, then it is > fortunate indeed that we don't actually use his software.
Did you already forget what the discussion is about? Security/bugfix Ubuntu LTS updates don't break compatibility for the sake of hardening things, which is the whole point. (As for the idea that using "Canonical's kernel" amounts to not using "Linus' software", that's a rather unorthodox notion of authorship. It's very likely Canonical doesn't change more than 1% LOC in the kernel, so you're still bound to Linus' decisions for at least 99% of the code - and even probably for the remaining 1%, since Canonical's version won't be massively divergent.) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
