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Is there a fixmint.com? Apparently one is needed: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2013-November/014768.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/arch

• levosmetalo 13y ago
  I don't understand what's the complaint here. I'm not familiar with Mint, but if Mint is using upstream versions of Linux kernel, Firefox and Xorg, I can see that only as a good thing, since I have more trust in upstream core developers of these packages then in Ubuntu or any other distributions "hardening". Just remember the Debian OpenSSH security fiasco where Debian "fixed" the security flaw in upstream OpenSSH and made all its users vulnerable.
  • rlpb 13y ago
    My interpretation of that thread (I don't know any more than what is written there) is that Mint turns off security updates for those packages. There's no mention of them using another source for updates. AIUI, there are no updates.
• csense 13y ago
  I've been running Mint for over a year now and I'm pretty sure that xorg, kernel and firefox have had updates in that time. On my current Linux Mint install (which is less than a year old and not heavily customized), my /etc/apt/sources.list.d has the following line: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security main restricted universe multiverse I'm not sure about the bootloader, but I'm pretty sure I've gotten kernel, X and Firefox updates between major releases. I'm going to say this person's working with outdated or incorrect information, and/or security.ubuntu.com somehow got removed from his local installation.