key barriers

[Michal F. Hanula]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:13:10PM -0800, Thanjee Neefam wrote:
> I like being able to browse to www.debian.org/security and to know that 
> on certain days as many as 5 patches are released.  And that with a 
> single command I can apply all the patches I need.
> 
> Now, FreeBSD has a similar page freebsd.org/security but it doesn't list 
> as many bugs.  Does that mean FreeBSD has fewer holes?  Or does it mean 
> it takes longer to fix them in FreeBSD?  Or that people are not testing 
> the security of BSD as much as Debian?  I don't know.
Short aswer:
	FreeBSD has fewer holes.
Long answer:
	FreeBSD has fewer holes in the base OS than Debian has in all
	the packages.

	Which is quite obvious and doesn't mean anything at all.

							m&f

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