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> If you use Ubuntu or Debian, you can forget security

Why do you say so?




> Why do you say so? (about Debian/Ubuntu)

Critical security fixing time is years, not days. Also in practice, a lot of people use PPAs to get work done, and this is a critical component in an audited system.


This is absurdly untrue.


> This is absurdly untrue.

I’m just gonna leave these here:

[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/

[2] https://security.archlinux.org/

...then everyone can compare upstream/downstream fixing times for themselves.

Remember: “not yet assigned” is equivalent to “not fixed”.




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