Daouda Lo wrote:
On 1/5/07, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
Oracle REALLY, REALLY, REALLY needs to rethink this policy ... giving away free ISOs that contain packages with known security vulnerabilities and not providing free security updates is wrong headed and ABSOLUTELY IRRESPONSIBLE.
I can't understand how they can sleep at night.
Looking at their security track regarding their flagship product - I think they're used to it or their drugs are strong enough :)
It's the same policy as RedHat and its RHN thingie. Both ORacle and Redhat provide fee-based updates.
RedHat at least lets you test the product for 30 days - including free (as in beer) updates.
Fedora and Centos are the ways to go if you want to be totally free.
As in beer, yes. As in speech, you can also use RHEL. And: CentOS is always happy about donations >:)
Ralph