Ubuntu first time

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:36:00PM -0500, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> What about that lovely sshd upgrade that the Debianites foisted on
> us that opened a whole giant vulnerability? You can't say it never
> happens now. Karl Popper *will* get you in the end ...

The ssh random number bug for key generation from some years ago was
certainly unfortunate.

Everyone has bugs occationally.  The system worked great though, the
keys generated just weren't that good.

One small mistake in one package (which didn't make the system unstable
or unusable) hardly means the distribution is bad.  It just happened to
be a very unfortunate mistake.

> I must be doing something wrong. Been running two machines from
> early Ubuntu 9-ish to current, using auto-updates. Apart from the
> time that the power went out mid-way through and I had to
> dpkg-reconfigure everything from one command, they're running fine.

My Debian 2.0 installed machine is still working after 13 years of
upgrading.  It could use being moved to a new disk though.  The bearings
sound awful on the current disk.

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Len Sorensen
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