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Security concerns in Ubuntu and CentOS

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http://serverfault.com – In my company we are dealing with an interesting decision: which Operating System should we choose as the default one? This does not mean that every installation will be based on the chosen Operating System, but using a different one will probably have to be justified Features and other comparisons aside (I indeed read this post but it didnt help much), the main discussion is around overall security and how the developers of each one of the two Operating Systems deals with it. This is as far as I know: Ubuntu has LTS for 5 years and has actual Canonical employees working on compability an (HowTos)

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