From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:4091e8.4d3c47{at}harborwebs.com...

> Nope it's a distrib coz I got my laptop out of it's box & turned it on &
> everything was already there & loaded. I have yet to open any of the cd'es
that
> came with the Dell. It's a hard disk distrib. A CD is a piece of hardware.

Ok fine lets go down the Dell route because that is a distribution. You get
a restore CD from Dell with Windows and Office on it. Office has an exploit
and MS releases a patch. Who do you go to in order to get a patched CD? You
go to Dell because it's their distribution that has the flaw, you don't
call up microsoft and demand a new office cd do you?

It counts as a security issue for the Dell restore CD, it doesn't count as
an NT security issue because you don't have an NT distro, in fact dell even
tells you that you can't install NT service packs on their computers you
have to get the dell supplied and approved service packs.

Redhat is not *just* linux, RH is a distro, just like the dell restore CD.
So a flaw in sendmail does count as a flaw in RH if sendmail is part of
their distribution.

Geo.

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