> From: "Geo." 
> "Chris Robinson" 
wrote in message
> news:4031ec78$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> If I pop Windows on a PC and install my standard suite of software
>> (office apps, PIM, CD burning, browser, e-mail etc, etc, etc) then I
>> have to go to a ton of different websites and manually download and
>> install the patches for every single piece of software I have installed.
>> 
>> At this point, if you leave the "who's responsible"
debate to one side,
>> then Linux distro's have a real advantage here anyway.
> Yes, and you also have a way to rank the security of the different distro's
> depending on which include the dangerous stuff like sendmail or bind.
> Geo.


SE Linux comes with the source rpm'es for the fedora stuff but seeing how
they're not even compiled to binaries I fail to see how they would count as
applications.


Adam

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