OpenSUSE security updates

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Published on 2010-03-24T11:44:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 11:53 UTC
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I have noticed that OpenSUSE informs me of patches for security holes and race conditions and things much more frequently than, say, Ubuntu.

Now then, does this mean that:

[A] OpenSUSE has more holes that need to be fixed in the first place

or...

[B] The OpenSUSE gang are more active at finding / squashing bugs.

What do you think?

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