Re: RE: Linux (in)security

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Peter Busser wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > > http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/company/schools/sheet.pdf
> > > ``As a desktop operating system Linux is secure, stable and easy to use.''
> > > (SuSE is a vendor BTW)
> > >
> > > http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/022503_report2077.html
> > > ``The certification is "additional validation" that Linux is secure, ...''
> >
> > And yet, none of these seem to be direct statements from the dist
> > maintainers, more appearing to be media related links.  Do you have actual
> > links that support your claim made by those that maintain or distribute
> > various dists?
>
> Right, SuSE is not a dist maintainer nor a distributor. And the director of
> IBM's Linux Technology Center has nothing to do with Linux development either.


How would one classify SUSE then, as I know that in my present job, we had
to determine to go with the SUSE dist or the redhat dist for putting linux
on the s390 platrform.  Now backend support was via IBM channels.  But,
for all intents and purposes, SUSE appeared/s to use as not too much
different then redhat as pertains to a dist maintainer/distributer.
Afteral, they have their own pkgs and such, no diff then redhat.
slackware, debian...


Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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