What is that I say, a win for Linux? Look now that all the nay-sayers, pundits, and critics have had a chance to chime in lets look at the big picture. The openssh vulnerability is not something to take lightly and I’m not it’s just I think allot of noise was made for something I think was handled much better than any Microsoft vulnerability ever has.

Notifications were sent from multiple sources, Canonical made sure Launchpad was protected, and the forums (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian) went into over drive letting everyone know what to do. If it was a Debian based distribution it was made perfectly clear you needed to install the security updates.

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