[OT Security PSA] Shellshock: Update your bash, now!

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 16:57:07 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 15:45:26 UTC, eles wrote:
>> The first thing that I love in Linux is the centralized update.
>
> The downside is it's taken down centrally too, while 
> distributed windows software continues to work independently of 
> each other.
>
> On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 15:48:58 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> This claim is so strange I can't even understand what it is 
>> about. Which repositories get abandoned?
>
> Repositories of the not latest version of the OS. Because only 
> latest version receives development. That is, if the OS doesn't 
> have rolling updates.

This is simply telling lies, sorry. All distros that don't have 
rolling release model provide LTS versions that get all important 
updates (including security updates, of course) for years. For 
example Ubuntu LTS lasts for 4 years where one can count on fast 
updates.

And even after that period your distro does not disappear 
magically, you are simply force to install necessary updates 
manually (as opposed to 1 click / command update from repo), 
basically getting you back to Windows _default_ state of things.