On 01/11/2015 09:24 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Sun, January 11, 2015 7:29 pm, Keith Keller wrote:
On 2015-01-12, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
PS I guess I just mention it. I'm quite happy about CentOS (or RedHat if I look back). One day I realized how happy I am that I chose RedHat way back, - that was when all Debian (and its clones like Ubuntu,...) admins were fighting with the consequences of this: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571 . If I had Debian machine I would not only regenerate all key pairs, certs, etc. I would question sanity of that box then, and will not be certain what confidential stuff could have been stolen from it... I realized then that that level big flop never happened to RedHat. I couldn't even point to something that would constitute big flop RedHat of then. One only criticizes something while one cares about it ;-)
Heartbleed was pretty scary, no? I'd consider that at least as bad as the predictable number generator issue.
Well, heratbleed and shellshock were pretty much global: all systems (not only Linuxes, not to say particular Linux distributions - my FreeBSD boxes were affected too) using openssl or bash were affected... Same bad, yet these were not flops of particular distribution, so whichever system you decided to stick with , you had these. Not certain about you, but this kind of makes difference for me. When I say I'm happy about [me choosing way back] RedHat heartbleed, no heartbleed, no difference.
Valeri
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I guess everyone will have an opinion of systemd whether it be good or bad. The only resolution is to either use a distro that has systemd on it, use a distro that DOESN'T have systemd on it...or build your OWN distro and don't include systemd! I guess when it all boils down to it, there's STILL choice.....even when it doesn't seem like there is!
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