Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

[Daniel Hollocher]

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> > Do you think that Linux Mint is a vulnerable system ? Really ?
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> https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules
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> this is the list of packages it will never update, instead of just
> integrating changes properly with the packagaes in the ubuntu archive
> they instead suppress doing (security) updates at all for them.
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 It looks like that is not quite the case.  Packages that are marked as 4
and 5 are not updated by default, whereas 1-3 are.  This is a setting which
can be changed:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=111929

Still probably insecure, but I understand they are trying to balance
between security and regressions.
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