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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 2 Feb 1997 11:30:55 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5d2q1f$jg0@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> <32F3810D.237C228A@freebsd.org> <5d21gt$12d@nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155770 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2198 In article <5d21gt$12d@nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl>, J.H.M.Dassen <jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl> wrote: >With Debian and Red Hat, bugs of >the latter kind, are forwarded to the upstream maintainers (with fixes >if found). And presumably the fixes for that one variant of GNU/Linux are installed immediately, but it's not until the next release cycle of the product the the fixes are propagated to all other GNU/Linux variants (assuming they update immediately to the latest versions). Given how often some tools are released (GNU binutils, for example), and they additional delay imposed by the release of a GNU/Linux variant, it could be a year or more before fixes propagate to all GNU/Linux variants. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.