[1362] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: ANNOUNCE/RFD: syspack and distribution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Fri Aug 9 15:02:19 1996
To: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Cc: sit@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Aug 1996 01:03:09 EDT."
<9608090503.AA12030@yaz-pistachio.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 15:01:29 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
> >Before the frosh arrive, we should decide on a distribution to
> >recommend.
>
> I think the attached mail points out a very good reason not to
> recommend Red Hat. I've been using Debian 1.1 for the past 3 weeks.
RedHat has been by far the most proactive Linux distribution on the
linux-security list as far as making packages available to fix
security holes as soon as fixes are available. They recently
went through a reorganization of their website and things
there are still changing and haven't totally stabilized yet.
(I'm not knocking Debian at all as I haven't had any experience with it).
Maybe we should support both RedHat and Debian if at all possible?
(Or would that be too confusing?) I'd like to move away from
supporting Slackware, however.
Erik
