Is Ubuntu safe to try

[Ante Karamatic]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:33 -0400, Nimefurahi wrote:

> A nessus scan on it's potential vulnerabilities, as presented
> out-of-the-box, shows it to be very secure, much more secure than
> scores of other distributions with exception perhaps of Trustix. But
> then, Trustix is not (to my knowledge) based upon Debian. There is much
> to be said for "apt-get", Debian, and its derivatives.

UH!!!! Big UH! Nessus is tool that can provide informations only to the
people who know how to use it :)

Nessus has A LOT of false positives, cause it's search is based on
version of the daemon. It doesn't check if the hole really is there, it
only checks versions.