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Re: Which distribution
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Omer wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, "Yosi" wrote:
> > 2. How fast does the manufacturer issues patches to security exploits
> > from the moment they have become publicly known.
>
> I have no information about RedHat or Mandrake. Baicly you do not wait for
> manufacturer to issue a patch, but you look for it somewhere else.
Is it just me or has the mandrake-security list been inactive for the last
couple of monthes?
At least in the case of userhelper, which was an easy-to-exploit local
root compormise, it was not fixed immeditely. In fact - it was never fixed
in 6.1 (AFAIK), although IIRC I checked mandrake 7.0 and the old exploit
did not work. I did not bother checking much further.
On my system I enbded up installing the fix that redhat issued.
And anyway - I failed to find archives of that list.
> > 3. This is specific to Mandrake - I know that Mandrake optimize their
> > packages for Pentium (they claim up to 30% speed ups). Will these
> > optimized packages cause any problems when executed on an AMD
> > Athlon cpu?
On my computer (PII 350) I haven't noticed any big difference when I
switched from red-hat 5.2 to mandrake 6.0, but I didn't do any serious
benchmarking to check this.
> A strange question. It will run more slowly than on processor which was the
> target during compilation. Basicly, you can recompile entire distro with
> your specific optimisations (I did it on my choise of Linux distro, where
> it is trivial.)
On red-hat, mandrake, and the rest of the rpm gang you can (at least
theoretically) fetch the source rpms for all of your stuff and rppm
--rebuild them. Practically I have not yet heard of anyone who did this
for an entire system.
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Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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