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

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 10/01/2014 02:42 PM, Kagamin wrote:
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> A have linux mint 12 installation with mint4win (wubi), on linux mint
> forums I was told, that updating from the latest repository won't work.


I sympathize: 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-install-enlightenment-on-mint-15-a-4175492936/

That annoyance is why (aside from servers) I've switched to 
rolling-release distros. In my case, Debian Testing (which, as I've been 
told by others here, and can personally confirm, is much more stable 
than it's unfortunately-chosen name would suggest). I picked that one 
since I'm most familiar with the general Debian family of distros 
(apt-get and all). But I've heard good things about Arch too and may 
look into it.

FWIW, I don't think all release-based distros are quite as aggressive as 
Mint with abandoning older releases. Even the super-outdated Debian 6 
apparently still has some support via its LTS repos. I suspect Mint may 
need to do things that way just as a manpower issue. Mint's a popular 
distro, but I get the impression it's development is a relatively small 
grassroots thing with much more limited resources than say Debian or 
Ubuntu. (Of course, I could be wrong.)