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Damn Vulnerable Linux

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Independent sources review: a couple of sentences in tech news website + inclusion in a catch-all Linux distro database. Not notable enough for Wikipedia in my opinion. There's also a more lengthy, but not really more meaty post here in Network World, but it's the "community" section of the site; basically just a blog entry. Additionally, I found that it has passing mentions in three security books, click "books" link above. (For comparison purposes, this is the list of distros from [1]: BackTrack, CAINE, Chaox, DEFT, FCCU Linux, Network Security Toolkit, Securix NSM; most of them are not notable by Wikipedia standards.) It was suggested on the talk page that mention at Security-focused operating system would more appropriate; it already has a section there. This stub is unwarranted. Tijfo098 (talk) 23:04, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep The Network World review is by a rather notable reviewer [2] not just some random person. They don't just let anyone publish whatever they want. So that certainly counts as a reliable source. HardOCP is a reliable source, and their news section mentions it, although not a lot to say about it. [3] A news writer and senior editor at Geek.com mentions what it is and gives his opinion about it. [4]. Dream Focus 23:46, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • He is not part of the NW staff. A CEO of a rather obscure consultancy writing a blog which has very little substance in most posts is more a form of self-advertisement and increasing his on-line profile than anything else. I'd hardly call that post a review. I haven't found a single sentence there indicating that he actually tried the product. He just reproduces the manufacturer's claims and then goes on a tangent about his own ideas about education and security. That's not a review in my book. Tijfo098 (talk) 00:13, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the Article Rescue Squadron's list of content for rescue consideration. Dream Focus 23:46, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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