On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:47 PM, C W <[email protected]> wrote: > Mint does need to make some changes on its security approach, in my > opinion, but Ubuntu is not free from controversy, either. Read this > article: > " > > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2207679/mark-shuttleworth-defends-ubuntu-1210-amazon-integration > ". >
I was actually one of the people who brought up the initial privacy and security concern notably this was all during beta testing so it was not by means a stable or final release and as we approach 12.10 release today the security and privacy concerns have both been addressed. Notably I am a Ubuntu Developer (I do not however work for Canonical). > > Cheers, > > Elcaset > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On Oct 17, 2012 8:04 PM, "Dale Snell" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:36:01 -0700 > > > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:06:27 -0700 > > > > Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> dijo: > > > > > > > > > >I would suggest against Mint.... Not because of the politics their > > > > >found brings in that I personally dislike but instead because by > > > > >default they disable Kernel Security Updates and also do not > announce > > > > >CVE's to their users. > > > > > > > > What are CVEs? > > > > > > CVE is an initialism standing for Common Vulnerabilities and > > > Exposures. Basically a system of reporting security exploits and > > > their fixes. A lot of the bugfixes I see for Fedora are CVE security > > > fixes. > > > > Yeah Red hat does a lot of CVE fixes they have a lot of developers but > > Ubuntu and Debian do their fair share. Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora publish > > CVE reports to keep their users aware of security issues affecting apps > > which Mint does not and further they disable Kernel Security Updates > > because they feel they are a threat no other distro does this. > > > > > > > > Check out <http://cve.mitre.org/> if you want more details. > > > > > > --Dale > > > > > > -- > > > Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate it when you do that. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > -- > Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy > http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ > https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en > > K Desktop Environment- Experience Freedom & User Friendliness > http://kde.org/ > > Free Lossless Audio Codec > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Flac > > Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at > http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- *Benjamin Kerensa* *http://benjaminkerensa.com* *"I am what I am because of who we all are" - Ubuntu* _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
