Bad article on fridge

Matthew Revell matthew at understated.co.uk
Wed Aug 9 16:07:54 BST 2006


On 08/08/06, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:

I wrote the headline and article on the Fridge.

> "Ubuntu fastest to fix security bugs"
> "Ubuntu fixes security bugs first"

Either of those would have been perfectly good headlines/titles for
it. I went with "Ubuntu top for security" mainly because it was short,
yet said what I thought was the most important point from the article.

The Fridge is our PR window on the world, as well as a news source for
people already in the community. Now, that doesn't mean it should be
inaccurate. I don't feel, though, that the headline is inaccurate. I
actually think it works well as a headline because it gives a very
good idea of the article, without going into too much detail. However,
I'll certainly bear in mind that one or two people felt it didn't do
justice to the original study.

> At least, that's closer to the truth--as they only tested a couple of
> distros...  ;-)

As has been said previously, the study looked at a good many of the
most popular distros, not just a couple.

-- 
Matthew Revell
www.understated.co.uk



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