WARNING: THIS IS A SLIGHT FLAME IN RESPONSE TO RECENT POSTINGS, DELETE RIGHT NOW IF YOU ARE TIRED OF READING THESE POSTINGS. I WAS ALSO TIRED BUT NEEDED TO GET MY 2 CENTS IN: I have watched this thread now for sometime and feel as though my 2 cents might not hurt at this point. First, I have no ties to SuSE other than being a user of there distro who has looked at most other major distros and come back to what as it the most complete I've seen so far. Now, I think that the action taken by SuSE was completely correct. Rather than a)Letting some deviant find and exploit this problem, typical MS style always playing catchup or b)announcing the problem prior to a fix therefore giving said deviant the know how to exploit, SuSE first found the problem , might I say a great credit to the people at SuSE ;-) , then both fixed and informed other distributors of Linux of problem and fix, then announced the problem to the world when and only when there was a fix. I believe this is why we have distributions, so they can take in mass quantities of apps, test them, package them, and ship them out to us in a nice little box therefore removing the requirements of downloading half the software on the planet, testing, and hoping that no flaws exist. Further might I add that SuSE is the best one at this, think about it 7.3 shipped with 7cds, 2300+ apps, and an install routine I could leave my little Sister, who has little to no computer knowledge, to complete sucessfully. Where previous posts on this thread have gone to far in my humble opinion is to liken any LiNUX distributor to MS. Again in my humble opinion MS knows of security flaws prior to software release dates and either does nothing till the mainstream finds out or most often creates what is called a new version of it's OS, really a service patch/security fix, and sells it to customers touting it as the latest greatest thing in computing that everyone must have(think about 95-95b-98-98se-ME for example). SuSE is not like this, I have seen over several years that every effort is made by SuSE to provide a safe, secure, stable environment for it's users, one that provides rapid response to security related issues in software shipped with each version of the distro. I'll copy a previous post style for the moment: <flame> If you out there are unhappy with the way SuSE or any distrobution handled this or any security related issue I think one of two things needs to happen: 1.Stop using distros, try building your system from scratch, the tarball way and see how far you get and secure you stay 2.If you think you can do better create your own distro, ship it out to the people, and support it. Don't ever think that you or anyone not on the development team of a project has the right to attack those whose sole purpose is to provide a service to you. Again if the service is not good enough don't use it. </flame> I feel better now and I'm done. The only thing I was unhappy about was that my 7.3 shipped the day this announcement came out, which only sucks because I had to do major work to a new install even before it was installed, but SuSE you still rock and these haters need to roll on as we don't need their kind they only complain and destroy rather than help and build. Sorry for wasting bandwidth and again my hat's off to SuSE for again leading the way.