Security management Toolkit
Story: Open source renders patching a problem
Posted by: Anonymous (Saturday 26 November 2005, 6:22 PM)
What a pointless article. Any of the mainstream Distros (Fedora, RHEL/Centos, Debian/Ubuntu, Novell Linux) provide more than adequate patch (or Package) management.
Here is an idea for a useful article.
"Windows renders application management a problem"
How many times do you have to give normal users (especially mobile ones) either Power User or Admin rights just to do little things and even when they don't have the privileges the computers still get infected with Adware & spyware.
All UNIX & GNU/Linux sustems provide better permisson control in the form of sudo and other tools to only give the users rights to do what they want.
Patch management is irrelevent when the user can do stuff without the admin knowing.
Full Talkback thread
Story: Open source renders patching a problem
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Complete bull. I do run Open Source technology and... Arthur B. -
States the bleeding obvious. An admin should alway... Bill DuPree
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All Linux distros I know that use openssl have an... Marc Deslauriers
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This is a non-issue for package managed distributi... Anonymous
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This is a non-issue for package managed distributi... Anonymous
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Does anybody with a production server use MS autom... Anonymous
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On the other hand, the open source community conti... Anonymous
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I have to disagree with this article. I think the... Julian Woods
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yum -y update....done. Create a cron job and do it... Anonymous
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To say that Linux doesn't have a patch management... John Lewis
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Do facilities like Debian's Apt-Get and Redhat's c... Anonymous
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STUPID article.
Here's how I do patch management:... David F. Skoll
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The comment about opensource pathch mamange ment i... Anonymous
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This is what Yum and Apt are for on RPM and DEB-ba... Ben Williams
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The article seems rather silly, since it appears t... Anonymous
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Ignorant rubbish! Why didn't you research before w... Carla Schroder
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I run SuSE Linux 9.3... on my desktop. The very th... Anonymous
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Regarding patch management, I think you're somewha... Anonymous
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SpikeSource's products and services address this v... Anonymous
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As with anything open-source and free software, it... Barak Korren
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What a pointless article. Any of the mainstream D... Anonymous
