[ale] Need a better Linux distro
Leam Hall
leamhall at gmail.com
Sun May 31 18:21:22 EDT 2020
Yup, Nux. That was what got me on this thing.
On 5/31/20 5:21 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> What repo's are you using??? There are some that are not a good idea,
> others are frowned upon. Any repo that provides desktop environment
> tools other than epel and rpmfusion is a bit suspect. Nux is right out.
> Tends to break things as well
>
> On May 31, 2020 10:20:28 AM EDT, Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> On 5/31/20 9:04 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 08:56:11AM -0400, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
>
> I can't remember what I was doing this morning, but I look
> at the installed
> packages on my CentOS 7 box. I was surprised, and very
> dismayed, that a few
> dozen rpms came from a repo in the former Eastern Bloc.
>
>
> It's not entirely clear what you are saying -- was your system
> was breached?
>
> Do you know the attack vector? How would a different distro have
> fared
> any differently?
>
> _every_ distro has vulnerabilities; that's why you must
> routinely apply
> the various updates the distro supplies. If the vulerability was due
> to software or configuration not supplied/managed by the distro,
> then
> the underlying distro probably wouldn't have mattered.
>
>
> I consider the installation of significant packages (libselinux-*,
> linux-firmware) from a third party repository, from some areas of the
> world, to totally compromise the system. While I would love to believe
> the best in everyone, and to be right about that, reality says that
> doesn't work.
>
> Since I really dislike systemd, a new OS is in order. I have worked with
> RH for more than two decades, and made my living supporting their
> products. I'm sad to go, but it's the right thing to do.
>
>
> You have to decide if "tinkering" is just a means to an end, or the
> entire point, of this system of yours -- Because your time isn't
> free or
> unlimited.
>
>
> Yup. I need a system that will do the things I need done. At the moment
> I'm not an OS guy. If my job or situation changes, I might have to
> reevaluate that. :)
>
> Leam
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