Keeping Up with Distribution Security
While Linux is Linux, many security issues are distribution specific. In this section, you will review various ways to keep up with the latest security issues for each distribution. This section reviews security lists associated with Red Hat and Ubuntu and allied distributions.
Although Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the stable enterprise-ready distribution released by Red Hat, some enterprises choose other distributions based on Red Hat software. Other options include Fedora Core, the open-source developmental test bed for future RHEL releases. Additionally, CentOS is available. CentOS started as a binary-compatible but free version of RHEL but has since switched to become an upstream distribution for ...
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