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Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long? by InsidiousWombat on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:03AM (#50394093)
The fix is to install Debian
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Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long? by pedro_caetano on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:27AM (#50394488)
Debian also had a CVE (yesterday?) on a MITM affecting APT?

Arguably also affecting Ubuntu by Corollary with APT.

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Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long? by fodkodrasz on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:40AM (#50394716)
Maybe... IBM RHEL. Or Arch. Or NixOS. Or Fedora. Anything that doesn't ship apt.
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Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long? by tlamponi on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:56AM (#50394947)
They all had flaws and holes in their package manager in the past, or how are they magically 100% secure?
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Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long? by icedchai on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:53AM (#50394889)
Or build your own kernel from kernel.org and install that. I moved one of my Ubuntu dev boxes to 7.3.1.
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