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Re: Red Hat and kernels [Re: ISDN with RedHat 6.0?]
Gaal Yahas writes:
> 1. Red Hat are producing a system, not bundling software. They
> are integrators who make their living by getting many things to
> work together quite well, and if you have to pay in time for
> newer kernels, you are compensated by other Good Things that RH
> do. Think of a shop that does not have a dedicated hacker that
> can tweak packages all day long. Red Hat lets them use a fair
> system that isn't bleeding edge, but still wet. That's nice.
True. IMHO Red Hat should try to push these changes to the official
kernel though. I wonder why they don't do that (and keep on their own)
-- it'd benefit them at least as much as the rest -- they won't have
to reapply them each time a new kernel is released.
> 2. Red Hat are, IMHO, one of the best *nix vendors in terms of
> security behaviour, responsibility, etc. In fact, I'd place them
> second only to OpenBSD. They organize audits on existing code,
> are extremely prompt in fixing problems, and do not hide any
> information from their customers, whether paying or not. They
> are very professional about this.
I'd say that the difference between OpenBSD and the rest is that the
OpenBSD folks fix the bugs before they are discovered and the rest fix
them after. Just about every bug report on BUGTRAQ is greeted with the
standard Theo message "where have you been, we fixed that back in '97"
or so. :-)
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