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Why the Linux Mint Hack is an Indicator of a Larger Security Problem

posted by martyb on Monday February 29 2016, @04:52AM   Printer-friendly

An Anonymous Coward writes:

On February 20th, a hacker working under the handle "Peace" took control of the website of Linux Mint, a popular Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu (and Debian) targeted toward non-technical users and power users unhappy with modern desktop environments. While these attacks are regrettable, and part of an infrastructure problem rather than a problem with the distribution itself, it increasingly appears that, when it comes to security, the Linux Mint team is spread too thin. The distribution itself blacklists updates that work perfectly in Ubuntu and Debian, and the graphical utilities don't update the kernel.

Because the value added by Linux Mint is in Cinnamon, why do the developers need to distribute a broken version of Ubuntu when the Cinnamon DE (Desktop Environment) could be distributed as an Ubuntu spin?

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  • (Score: 1) by steveg on Tuesday March 01 2016, @10:12PM

    by steveg (778) on Tuesday March 01 2016, @10:12PM (#312385)

    Furthermore, I've never thought of Mint as particularly Cinnamon oriented. I've always thought of it as the Mate distribution that made proprietary drivers easily available.