Completely unrelated to the topic, but I was surprised to see the name "Caitlyn Martin" pop up. "Caitlyn" is fairly well known in the ham radio community as someone who has had some "
irregularities" in "her" online business transactions ("her" in quotes because supposedly she used to be a he). Caitlyn laid low in the ham community, but apparently is still out there, and working for a respectable place like O'Reilly. Hmmm...
Even if we, the business user community, could be assured that CentOS will deliver security patches promptly from here on out I still think Scientific Linux is a stronger choice. I'm not saying that Scientific Linux has better code or provides a better computing experience than CentOS or any other Enterprise Linux clone. I am saying that it has a strong organizational foundation that CentOS lacks. Sorry Caitlyn but I'm not gonna drink your kool-aid...I'll continue using CentOS thank you very much. IMHO she sounds like a shill for Scientific Linux, but that's just me. Nothing against Scientific Linux, it is a good distribution but it isn't for everyone.
Red Hat delivered Firefox 3.0.12, a security patch which closed five vulnerabilities classified as "critical", the same day Mozilla did. Scientific Linux (another RHEL clone) had it available within 24 hours. It took CentOS more than a week.
So? Get Firefox directly from Mozilla, that is what I do.
