[GTALUG] Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

Lot of people are slow to apply updates.
Once you fall off the wagon, it starts to get harder to get back on.
I could give examples but that could be making those systems targets

Fedora, for example, only provides updates for a year and a bit.  It 
produces new releases every six months.  It isn't hard to put something 
off for a year (I do it all the time).  Oops.

RHEL, SuSE, and Ubuntu sell their commercial versions with the promise 
that updates will be provided for five or more years.

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| If the problem was patched in January, does not Linux update on a regular
| enough basis for the patch to get incorporated for most users?