Irony would be if you used my install tutorials for them. Considering how much bashing you used to do to me based on the fact that I wrote so many Linux and BSD installation tutorials.

Does Debian still have two patches a day? I haven't actually looked in a while because of the stuff I've had to do this past year, but I remember watching Bugtraq thinking "Wow, Gentoo and Debian have like at least two patches a day, why is this?".

Gentoo was worse, with like 2 - 5 patches a day rolling by the list, and then Debian was in second place with 1 - 2 patches per day.

Slackware only had some once in a while, and SUSE was sort of in the middle. Which is to be expected considering they customized most of their stuff with at the least a logo, and at most a total re-write.

I always thought SUSE would have more just because they had a whole team dedicated to auditing the code line by line like OpenBSD goes on and on and on and on about. It made sence they'd have more because they went over the whole system line by line to fix security bugs, but they seemed to always do a good job.

I remember a while back having a laugh with Marcus Meissner, the head of SUSE security, who I might add once wrote a Kernel patch, FOR ME, because it screwed up my Nvidia drivers after an update and I happened to be talking to him at the time, and he went in early to patch it for the card I had, and released it so I could keep 3D. I thought that was nice

Anyway, we had a good laugh one time; A bug got released that had a security vuln in it where you could get access with it. People were nagging him about releasing a patch and he simply pointed out that the only thing this exploit did was allow you to "own yourself". you already needed an account and to be logged in, and so he was like "I'm not patching this. I'm not making a patch that could in itself break something and make people reboot because you can get your own password. That's stupid, I'm not doing it, download the exploit and use it the next time you forget your password".

I just thought it was funny.

Anyway, lately here is my set up:

Laptop:

Small XP Partition for DooM and Quake and Wolfenstein and UT.

Rest of disk:

Mandriva 2008.0 with 3D and neat looking Compiz.
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Main Desktop #2:

One huge HUGE partition. Open SUSE 11
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Main Desktop #1

HD#1: Windows XP. Hasn't been boosted in a long time.

HD#2: way bigger drive. Whole thing allocated to FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE
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Test desktop - Old machine -

Partition 1 - Windows 98 SE for Magic The Gathering game that won't work on anything else.

Partition 2 - Slackware 12.2

Other Laptop:

XP on one partition, SUSE 11 on the other.

Also have Solaris around here too, but I don't let it go online. #1 because I haven't spent enough time to figure out how to have it connect, and two because I don't know quite what I'm doing with it yet, so it's probably safer to let it play offline for now. Love the layout and how it works so far though.

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Server / Old Computer. Was the first one I ever bought. P3:

Two HDs. First drive is Slackware 12.0 with VSFTP running.

Disk two is way bigger and is one big partition /storage for ...Storage.