Of course, if you run a maintained version of any Enterprise Linux I'd put good bets down that they'll be patched shortly. If you spun your own distro, then you made the choice to maintain it yourself anyway.

The RHEL patch was released yesterday: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html

If you're installing with a net connection, you can check "Updates" when selecting software repositories and Fedora will be installed with the latest updates, right out of the update repos. Saves you from the potential vulnerability window while you run 'yum update' after install.

In 1984, citizens were encouraged to spy on each other and report possible dissidents to the authorities. So yes, this is very Orwellian.

RTFN

"The people who claim they are doing homebrew, versus those who actually do is statistically non-existent."

I'm non-existent? Man, what a downer.

To be fair, they don't worship Star Wars, they follow the principles embodied in the Jedi code. Which is a stew of ideas stemming from a variety of real religions/moral codes, including Animism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chivalry.

Actually, studies suggest that DARE has no long-term effects on drug use: http://www.apa.org/releases/dare.html

"Legal teams aren't consumed when you use them"

Clearly, we do things differently.

Necromancy [Fear, Evil, Mind-Affecting]
Level: Lawyer 5
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 day
Range: 12,800 kilometers
Targets: up to eight D&D players
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

You ensnare the targets in a vast machine of red tape, legalese and procedures. The target feels compelled to pay you 1d10 x 1000 gp per caster level. If the target succeeds at his will save, he navigates the red tape and is not affected. The target is then free to return to his mother's basement.

Material Components: a large amount of money and a Legal team

"I'm sorry but is that the judo christian God, or the god that BSG actually used?"

I didn't know judo christians had a different god than regular christians! What belt do you have to earn before they tell you about judo christian god?

I'll take the flame-bait.

Tell that to all the companies running Linux for mission-critical services: Amazon, Google, Wikipedia, Slashdot, cripes, *most of the friggin' web*...

Your statement is about 10 years out of date, at least.

Well, RHEL also mantains a stable kABI within the entire major release, and only rebases packages when absolutely necessary (maintaining most library ABIs as well). For example, RHEL 4 ships apache 2.0.52, and has since launch. Security and bug fixes are backported, but the fundamental behavior remains the same for any instance of RHEL 4. This is also true of libraries.

This means that a given piece of 3rd-party software is more likely to keep working after an update in RHEL than in Fedora.