-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi ya gang, I'm in a kinda heated discussion with someone in another NG about the MySQL vulnerability. He's saying that up to and including the version in SuSE 8.2 (3.23.55 -14) is still the vulnerable version(s). He's put up some URL's that show it's only a *candidate* (at least that's how I read it), but not fully acknowledged yet as 'vulnerable'. So if anyone here knows better, *is* the version in 8.2 vulnerable? Also, he's saying that the 'kernel vulnerability' in 2.4.20 will affect *all* linux distros that use it. I say that by each distro doing it's own 'patching' of kernels doesn't necessarily mean it's 'vulnerable' in *every* distro. I'm probably and will easily admit it, but I figured I'd find out from other sources (you guys) first, since I don't wqant to take the word of one person only...him. My argument is, that since I've not seen or heard of either of these vulnerabilities in SuSE 8.2, and that if they *were* affecting 8.2, SuSE is *very fast* to make the announcements along with workarounds and/or a patch or updated rpm of <whatever>. One last thing (it's an argument covering a lot of areas, heh), he's also saying that SuSE is 'meager' in its support of applications. He says Debian supports 8000 apps to SuSE's 2000...is this true also? He said 8000 are on the Debian CD's, I argued, that though there's may not be 8000 on the SuSE CD's/DVD's, that doesn't mean the apps won't work in SuSE, that he's just using a poor argument to say how Debian is 'better' overall (I personally don't think any one distro of Linux is 'better' or 'worse' than another, because it's *all* Linux, but this guys started to put down SuSE with a lot of unfounded garbage and I stepped up to defend the 'unfounded' part, not jusy SuSE). So...am I really way off base and throwing mud in my own face with my arguments against this guy? Opinions anyone? John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+zOGJH5oDXyLKXKQRAk4CAJ0SBmPhxaMmMNkUl0P0PMcaQJkYWQCgpBs5 QRcwVoeZUERlqNbQ+ewZKPg= =aOjK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----