On September 1993 plus 3668 days Leon Brooks wrote: > Perhaps the local mirror (PlanetMirror) is just lagged but it's showing > openssh-3.6.1p2-7mdk rather than 3.7.*. Even if this is a patched > 3.6.1, it would be considerably more reassuring if it said "3.7.1*" for > the 9.2 release, seeing that even 3.7.0 has security issues with, > apparently, wild exploits for same.
No, it's a lot more reasuring having a version that works (3.6.1p2) with the security patches backported. There's more problems with 3.7.x than you can shake a stick at. I think Vincent's reasoning (you can read it in other threads) is The Right Way. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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