[PLUG] would this laptop work?

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:47 PM, C W <elcaseti at gmail.com> 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 <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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