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Red Hat vs Debian Linux: overall security Nov 27 2006 05:44PM tjanas austin rr com (7 replies) Re: Red Hat vs Debian Linux: overall security Nov 29 2006 10:04PM Uday K. MOORJANI (umoorjani mediaserv net) Re: Red Hat vs Debian Linux: overall security Nov 28 2006 06:18PM Cristobal Palmer (cristobalpalmer gmail com) Re: Red Hat vs Debian Linux: overall security Nov 28 2006 06:09PM Vincent Renardias (vincent renardias com) Re: Red Hat vs Debian Linux: overall security Nov 28 2006 06:06PM Graeme Fowler (G E Fowler lboro ac uk) (1 replies) |
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> From that, can you derive that Redhat is less secure than Debian?
> No. You can only derive that there are more CVE entries for "redhat"
> than there are for "debian", but with no more granularity than that.
You've also got to consider the number of packages included in the
distribution (and the number of package "normally" installed, whatever
that may be), the number of architectures supported, and reporting
practises.
Vulnerability reports are not meant for assessing the overall security
of a distribution. Trying to use it for that purpose will not produce
meaningful results.
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Alex Nordstrom
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