On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:12:32AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > > > The downside (I've found) of the SuSE philosophy on maintenance of the SLES series > > is that they never (normally) release a new VERSION of a product to fix a problem. > > They just retrofit patches to the > > version supplied with the distro. > > This is generally the case with Red Hat too. THe aim, I think, is to > minimist changes so as to minimise the posibility of conflict with other > components, startup scripts and so on.
And the changes to your config files! In other words: it is a fix, that should fix your system, not break it. A side-effect: You end up with a "vulnorable" samba 2.0.7 and openssh 3.1 (Or so some skript kiddis might think) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
