[GRLUG] FW: $849 - New IBM Thinkpad T61 Core 2 Duo Laptop 2.0GHz with DVD-R, WWAN, WiFi and Widescreen

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:54:58AM -0400, Collin wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, its SUSE... I'd put Debian on it. I have Debian on my T61
> >
> >   
> I just heard about how Debian's propensity to modify every package has 
> come back to bite them (with OpenSSL I believe.) Is it really safe to 
> trust them any longer?

Debian has been doing this for *years*.  Back in the XFree86 days the
Debian developers applied over 100,000 lines of code to the XFree
codebase to "debianize" it.  (I do not know if they make that many
changes to Xorg.)  Debian is, however, very quick to issue bug fixes
when problems arise (such as with OpenSSL).  I remember some bug fixes
being available in Debian *STABLE* less than an hour after the bug
became public (security bug, that is).  All in all, Debian Stable is a
very secure, very stable operating system, even with the very rare
security bug introduced by their changes.  I do not think this instance
reveals Debian to be any less secure than it has been for the past
decade.
-- 
john-thomas
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