From: Adam Flinton 

Geo. wrote:

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

I have yet to receive any Windows XP fixes for this machine from Dell. They
appear to point you at Windows update on the net.


> 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.
>

No doubt, which is why Rich diverted you onto RedHat where Jeff's comment was:

"There are some who would probably kill me for this.. but I'd really
be interested in seeing what would happen if eeye turned some of that
talent loose on Linux.

Either we'd get a heck of a lot of fixes...or the Linux-heads would have
some strong evidence to back up the claim that Linux is more secure than
Windows. "

Note the complete lack of any distrib including RH.

You have to hand it to Rich as he is a master of diversion.

Adam


> Geo.
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