FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl

[jere]

I agree with that. What enterprise environment wants is quick patching 
and a quick rollback (in case of failure). Nobody asks you how good is 
or how much you like your OS - system just has to work - that's all. 
FreeBSD itself *is* very robust OS but not having this properties it is 
still limited to be widely accepted in large production environments.

j.

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Tobias Roth wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:09:53PM +0200, jere wrote:
> 
>> And you cannot expect the port maintainers
>> to backport security fixes if the upstream provider chose to release the
>> fix only together with a new version.
> 
> Yes you can, ask these guys: http://www.debian.org/. It's just a matter 
> of policy.
> 
> I dislike the long cycles between version updates in Debian but must 
> admit that the "stable" distributions indeed justify their name, 
> INCLUDING packages.
>