linux.gentoo.user

> > Good points Albert. Is a daily 'emerge --sync && emerge -avDuN world'
> > generally enough as far as tracking security vulnerabilities?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> That's not really for me to say. But I can tell you that although the
> Gentoo developers take matters of security seriously, there is no
> full-time security tracker. Sometimes things don't get patched in
> portage until someone (else) creates a bug report. And even if that
> were not the case, there are 0-day exploits that have yet to be patched.
>
> So it really depends on how informed/paranoid you are about what you
> have accepting requests from the Internet.

What do you think guys? Simplicity or security?

- Grant
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