On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:52:56 +0100, K. Reid Wightman composed: > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:46, jens francke wrote: > > hmm as far as i noticed they come delyed a few hours max. most of time > > on the same date when i386 appear, > > > > so shouldnt be a problem ;) > > Yep, I've noticed the same thing. PPC patches come out the same day (or > within a few hours). In really rare cases, the patch may be delayed a > day or two (like kghostview recently, but it may have just been my > mirror...). Kudos to all the ppc port package maintainers. > > You get a little bit of 'security through obscurity' by using ppc as > your webserver too...most exploits that script kiddiez use have x86 > assembler only. So the exploits segfault your server when it tries to > run instructions that aren't for it, but at least some 12 year-old > doesn't have root on your system. too true, too true hehehe :) simon > Cheers, > Reid
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