From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISHkd-0002G7-JB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:38:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l83JUZeX011568; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:30:35 GMT Received: from sccrmhc15.comcast.net (sccrmhc15.comcast.net [204.127.200.85]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l83JNt9X003473 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:23:58 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx ([24.245.14.14]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc15) with ESMTP id <2007090319235101500pdbsle>; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:23:55 +0000 Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68BE72DB50 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:23:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:23:51 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro "Gentoo" UP - Cast your vote! Message-ID: <20070903142351.4ff2acf7@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <200709010110.38462.me@guillermoamaral.com> References: <1188622946.6951.10.camel@sysconcept.ca> <200709010843.16690.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20070901085258.3cd42200@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200709010110.38462.me@guillermoamaral.com> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 79fcb4a8-6ac9-4428-abf0-27046e51c524 X-Archives-Hash: f9c3b956cd247b66c9d279397ce22fce On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:10:30 -0700 Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas wrote: > > On the other hand, a "vanilla" Gentoo installation could be > > considered a bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed > > it has to be the most secure. Also worth pointing out is since such a 'vanilla' stage3 would have quite recent software, making it more likely that recently discovered security holes have already been patched. For this reason I think gentoo is a good cantidate for 'most secure distro', the point already having been made that such a distinction is basically meaningless. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list