Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <mailman.1020866954.18575.python-list at python.org>, "Noah
Spurrier" <noah at noah.org> writes:

| Ha! RedHat 6.2 was better known as RootHack 6.2.
| Oh well, it taught me a lot about security -- the hard way.

not much different than other platforms as far as i know,
unfortunately. if you put a computer with in a potentially hostile
environment and run servers, you need to follow incoming security
updates and apply them diligently. read bugtraq sometime and weep.

  -- erno