[PLUG] would this laptop work?

[C W]

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
".

Cheers,

Elcaset

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On Oct 17, 2012 8:04 PM, "Dale Snell" <ddsnell at frontier.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:36:01 -0700
> > John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:06:27 -0700
> > > Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com> 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.
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