On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:53:49PM -0400, Andrew Warshall wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:35:01 +0000 > > Hi- > > The versions are mostly current. (I built basically the svn, and it > was within the last month.) Cairo is 1.12.16. One thing that isn't > so current is xorg; I basically built a straight 7.7 (as opposed to > the newer versions in the book). So that's xorg-server 1.12.2.
A quick google suggested that was released in June 2012 ? If so, you are missing all of the vulnerability fixes which came to light around July 2013 - as well as all the various bug fixes throughout xorg. We've recently been reasonably good at keeping the xorg versions current. Yes, there is always a possibility of breakage with the latest and greatest, but for common video drivers it is reasonably-well tested. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
