Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 03:55:23 -0400 From: Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan@CS.WM.EDU> To: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: : hiding OS name Message-ID: <20020713035523.A3048@dali.cs.wm.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020713020219.GE2527@gits.dyndns.org>; from cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net on Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 04:02:19AM %2B0200 References: <OAEOLDPOMIMMJMKEBFHCGELMCMAA.jps@funeralexchange.com> <19624177455.20020709175744@dds.nl> <20020711234121.GK21234@gits.dyndns.org> <20020711214839.A31361@dali.cs.wm.edu> <20020713020219.GE2527@gits.dyndns.org>
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Cyrille this is totally off topic in the subject and I suggest we stop it. If you intend to reply send me a personal email and let's spare the list. On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 04:02:19AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:48:39PM -0400, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > > http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html > > ok, but why don't they publish them in the -announce ml ? > > > It's accessible from the left navigation bar on the OpenBSD main site > > under the link "Patches". That seems reasonably visible for anybody who > > wants to make an effort to check. > > that's the point, why just "Patches" and not why they don't announce > them publicly (read in usenet and ml). so, you have to check yourself > for the information which FreeBSD push them to you which is the way > to go, IMHO. > > Cyrille. Because the world is not uniform. Some people do it one way, some do it the other way. OpenBSD errata are publicly published on the Web just like FreeBSD. One can easily make a script to get that page automatically, diff it with the previous one and send the email to administrator that new errata is available. That's a good enough way for OpenBSD users, obviously. You seem to have the opinion that FreeBSD users prefer mailing list announcements. Fine. I could claim that Red Hat Linux users prefer the fact that they have binary updates through rpms. Then again, SuSE users have binary patch rpms that are smaller and perhaps more convenient from their point of view. Solaris users have pkg binary updates that save the copies of old version in case one doesn't like the new update. World comes in all different colours and that is Good(TM). -- Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan@cs.wm.edu> http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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