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Re: Where are the XE security patches?

From: Arto Viitanen <arto.viitanen_at_csc.fi>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:39:28 +0200
Message-ID: <457fa020$0$8952$ba624cd0@newsread.funet.fi>


Brian Peasland wrote:

>If I get a free version of 

> Linux, I do not expect patches. If I do want patches, I pay for a
> supported version of Red Hat, SuSE, etc.
>

You have never used Gentoo Linux, have you? It is a source distribution, so it gets patches weeks if not months before binary distributions.

But on databases, I guess you are right: you get what you pay for.

-- 
Arto Viitanen, CSC Ltd.
Espoo, Finland
Received on Wed Dec 13 2006 - 00:39:28 CST

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