Re: [WBEL-users] Security updates

Raimo Koski wrote:
> Milan Kers(la'ger wrote:
> 
>> I'm a little bit unsatisfied with persistent troubles with WBEL. So I
>> want to point you to CentOS because this community project are able to
>> cooperate and is not depended on one owerworked person (even has been
>> slower before final release). All updates are ready a short time after
>> release (with priority for security updates). Because binary (and
>> source) compatibilty, this seems to be easy to switch.
> 
> 
> I lost interest in cAos before they released CentOS. It seemed without 
> following it much that they had a common community problem, too much 
> enthusiasm and/or opinions and too little people who do the actual work. 
> It might be different now, but of the ones I currently follow, Tao 
> x86-64 and Lineox provide updates fastest. Update 2 for Lineox was ready 
> 15.05.2004 10:05 GMT. Lineox has the advantage of automated generating 
> of binary packages. The system could be made faster, but I think 
> eliminating single point of failures like non-redundant Internet 
> connections would be more important improvements. Also waiting a while 
> to get error reports is sensible. Update 2 had a broken sendmail 
> package, which I had time to erase because compiling the whole batch 
> took so long.
> 
> The best way to increase compile times would be to use distcc 
> (http://distcc.samba.org/), but I would have to first compile at least 
> several packages with it and compare them to ones compiled without it. I 
> once tried Openmosix to speed up compile times and it didn't help at all.
> 

DistCC is effective, it works well.  Keep in mind that it is insecure, 
equivalent to opening up a passwordless account called "distcc".

   Ed