Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:09:46PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 6) Are security fixes available in a timely fashion for the BSD's? > For Linux in general? For Debian? I have some data comparing Linux distributions and the time to patch known security vulnerabilities, no data of BSDs, how

Re: Checking Signatures and Checksums

2002-09-03 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 07:18:08AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > > My question is this: Is there another script (for verifying signed > releases) that can be used in conjunction with dselect? > (Yes, there are people who prefer to use dselect over apt-get!) > Umm... you are right in you

Re: Securing bind..

2002-01-28 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:34:32PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: (...) > > but more importantly, if the question was how to secure bind, then let's > not secure it by substituting... bind is still the #1 nameserver, and a > thread like this (even though argued a million times) can be quite > infor

Re: Why don't we every see Debian articles on these sites?

2002-01-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:07:33AM -0800, Bruce Byfield wrote: > Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > () > >please.) > > > Karl: > (..)> > > As a matter of fact, some of the media kit I wrote for Progeny might be > very useful for this purpose with a few changes. Progeny isn't using it > any more, a

Request for testers for new gphoto package

2001-09-08 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I have just compiled a new version of the gphoto package built from CVS sources (and branded it gphoto-0.6). However, since this is a developer's release I'm not confident enough to substitute the current version of gphoto (0.4.3) in testing/unstable with this even if it includes some new cameras,