Just as Red Hat & Co pick up the Bills for Allan Cox and other High Profile members of the kernel development team SuSe picks up the tabs for the lead on the XFree; Dirk Hohndel, who is a full time employee of SuSe. Most of the special Video servers also are developed by SuSe and incorperated into XFree for the other distributions ,inclusive Red Hat, with the next release.

Actually, this is the very reason I'm using SuSE now. I have them to thank for the NVidia server that I used on my old machine, so I decided to try out their dist when I changed machines. Ironically, I'm now using SuSE on a laptop that requires the Neomagic driver developed by Red Hat. :)

Most developers here in Germany put pressure on SuSe to prevent the switch to glibc support until it was stable. This is only now becoming the case.

I disagree, of course. I was using glibc under Red Hat 6 months ago, and it was rock solid. I feel SuSE has waited too long to adopt. Since we're within days of 6.0, though, this point should become moot very soon.

So long as your Bastion Host is correctly configured you don't need to chase every hole that is found unless your on an open system such as an ISP.

I would at least like to be given the opportunity to chase every last security hole if I so desire. I think perhaps I vented a little too hard. I apologize, folks. It's tough to lose a weekend to Unix configuration. - Scott - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>