Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[Noah Spurrier]

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

Yours,
Noah

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Smith" <roy at panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:33 AM
Subject: Re: Has Red Hat helped or hurt?


> Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:
> >    Alas, in these days of software rush, 2 years are more than many
people
> > can tolerate; for them, 2 years-old software has already dead and gone.
Not
> > that I am saying it is good, but this is how many people think... or
were
> > taught to think.
>
> *snort*  Just yesterday at lunch, a co-workers asked me what I thought of
> Apple's announcement that OS-9 was dead.  Would it force me to upgrade to
> OS-X before I really wanted to?  My answer was that it really didn't
affect
> me because I hadn't upgraded to OS-9 yet.
>
> Then again, I'm also running RedHat 6.2.  Oddly enough, I've upgraded my
> python to 2.x, and havn't yet seen any problems caused by that.
>