Newest Gnome versus LTS

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Thu Jul 18 09:33:41 UTC 2019


hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 18.07.2019, 11:01 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via
ubuntu-users:

> Your point is, that user only need to care about upgrades and nothing
> else, 

no, my point is that 90% of users *do* only care about upgrades, thats
the only visible thing for them if they do not subscribe to some
vulnerability announcement list or whatnot ... based on that reality,
the most basic thing for them to do is to keep their system up to
date. 

watching vulnerability announcements is the job of the security team
... be assured that the canonical security team also helps the MOTU
(masters of the universe) team that maintains universe packages where
they can and that the canonical team will even supply patches to
universe packages if a very widely used package there has a heartbleed
grade security issue (they are not only canonical employees, they are
community users too !)

in any case, keeping your system up to date is the number one thing to
do, completely independent from reading security announcements (which
most users will never do). it is also completely orthogonal to what you
said about "keeping an insecure package running" *they will do that
anyway* but a potential fix *will only come in* if they upgrade on a
regular base.

indeed it is bad to run insecure stuff i dont argue with you here, but
to get any potential fixes you need to upgrade ;)

if you are an administrator for any internet facing site, it is
irresponsible to not inform yourself about security issues, no doubt
here either ... but the simple fact is that the majority of users out
there is neither an admin nor do they know (or want to know) what a
 vulnerability is, they are just users.

also ... do you remember that the CCC on TV said "upgrade as soon as a
fix is offered by your software provider" ? i definitely do ;)

ciao
	oli
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