New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Has your company switched from Ubuntu due to security patch gatekeeping?
Ask HN: Has your company switched from Ubuntu due to security patch gatekeeping?
7 by profwalkstr | 1 comments on Hacker News.
As you may know, Ubuntu is gatekeeping security updates in their "universe" repository. It will show your system is vulnerable and will only allow you to fix those security holes if you purchase Ubuntu Pro. They claim that the universe repository was always unsupported and now they are offering in-house patches for those packages, but they are intentionally unclear if they are upstreaming those fixes and if those fixes will arrive to non-paying customers after a while. They say they non-paying customers will get those fixes if the "community" fixes them, but the process to send patches in seem inexistent so that doesn't seem to actually happen. They are also intentionally unclear if they will pull and distribute for free users patches issued by the Debian team. Has anyone company, or any company you know (I'm not talking about home lab or domestic users) switched from Ubuntu to another distro (let's say, AlmaLinux or Fedora or Debian) because of this policy?
7 by profwalkstr | 1 comments on Hacker News.
As you may know, Ubuntu is gatekeeping security updates in their "universe" repository. It will show your system is vulnerable and will only allow you to fix those security holes if you purchase Ubuntu Pro. They claim that the universe repository was always unsupported and now they are offering in-house patches for those packages, but they are intentionally unclear if they are upstreaming those fixes and if those fixes will arrive to non-paying customers after a while. They say they non-paying customers will get those fixes if the "community" fixes them, but the process to send patches in seem inexistent so that doesn't seem to actually happen. They are also intentionally unclear if they will pull and distribute for free users patches issued by the Debian team. Has anyone company, or any company you know (I'm not talking about home lab or domestic users) switched from Ubuntu to another distro (let's say, AlmaLinux or Fedora or Debian) because of this policy?
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