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Nick Selby, July 7, 2006 @ 7:50 am ETInteresting thread on The Daily Dave pen-testing mailing list: Dave asked if anyone had a list comparing the patch speeds of different Linux distributions, such as, who patched OpenOffice bugs first…And who patched them last. And when will Ubuntu include grsec?
One of the list members shot back a post calling our attention to The LWN.net security alerts database, which keeps track of that kind of information, sans pretty pictures but chock full o’ interesting statistics:
| Distro | Patch | Date |
| Debian | DSA-1104-1 | 2006-06-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2006:0573-01 | 2006-07-03 |
| Suse | SUSE-SA:2006:040 | 2006-07-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2006-770 | 2006-07-03 |
Exceptionally cool. Then someone posted this this morning: “The Debian patch was superseded on 2006-07-06. Apparently, the first fix was incorrect.” In any event, these (the Daily Dave and LWN’s alert database) are both great open source and security resources.
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