On Sat, 18 May 2013 23:22:39 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 May 2013, Genghis Khan wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 01:01:25 > > From: Genghis Khan <[email protected]> > > To: Ekiga mailing list <[email protected]> > > Cc: Bret Busby <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] GNOME3/2 controversy > > > > On Sat, 18 May 2013 00:54:45 +0800 (WST) > > Bret Busby <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> A problem that I see with running Debian 5 (I think that I am still > >> running it on our firewall/gateway machine, but that is because the > >> firewall software, which appears to still work, is now obsolete), > >> is that I understand that no updates, security or otherwise, are > >> being provided for Debian 5, which would make Debian 5 a > >> vulnerability (I think). I could be wrong in that. > > > > Off topic: Did you refer to FireStarter[1] Firewall? > > > > [1]: http://fs-security.com/ > > > > Yes. > > It was about a uear ago, that, in response to a query that I posted > on the Firestarter list, someone on the list, advised that > Firestarter had been abandoned by its developers and was no longer > being maintained. FireStarter is a good firewall GUI. Too bad it is still abandoned. Strangely enough, I was reading that very post while I was receiving your message of Sat, 18 May 2013 00:54:45 +0800 (WST). I assume that this is the post in question: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28963553 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28904834 Sorry for digressing. P.S. I am not bored, I read fast ;-) > But I think that (whilst I am still doing it, which is wrong) people > should not still be running Debian 5, as I believe that it is no > longer supported by security and otherwise updates. You are correct. Debian “lenny” Release Information > Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 has been superseded by Debian 6.0 ("squeeze"). > Security updates have been discontinued as of February 6th, 2012. : http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/ Security Support for Debian 5.0 terminated > The Debian project is proud to have been able to support its old > distribution for such a long time and even for one year after a new > version has been released. : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120209 Debian “etch” Release Information > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 has been superseded by Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 > ("lenny"). Security updates have been discontinued as of the end of > February 2010. : http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ This PR complement note repeats itself.. Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated > The Debian project is proud to be able to support its old > distribution for such a long time and even for one year after a new > version has been released. : http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100121 P.S. I am not bored, I read fast and recall far ;-) > But, as I said (I think), previously, I could be wrong in that belief. > > And, as I previously said. the person to whom I was referring, was > running Debian 5, so he could keep running GNOME 2.x, but, Debian > 6.x, that I am running on this workstation, is also running GNOME > 2.x, so the person should (unless some other reason exists) now be > running Debian 6.x . Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released > an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.4 : http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504 This is unfortunate, I was hoping Debian would be released with Xfce. There is a process to include MATE DE in official debian repository. http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#debian http://packages.debian.org/sid/mate-common > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > .................................................... > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list -- Proper English www.reddit.com/r/proper 4 teh lulz... http://email.is-not-s.ms
@Readers, the following has nothing to do with Ekiga. This is how I got to that post on the Firestarter mailing list https://github.com/jappix/jappix/issues/258 https://github.com/TrubL https://github.com/ukanth/afwall Bookmarking: AFWall Observing: Firestarter (first listed under Iptables tag) http://fs-security.com/ http://fs-security.com/list.php Checking for activity: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firestarter/ Reading: Posted by OpenID User â 2013-03-19 https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=linux%20firestarter%20abandonded https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=linux%20firestarter%20abandoned http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.firewalls.firestarter.user/1868 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=7DE15C04-4DCD-4EF2-83CF-95D14E7DF105%40aus-city.com&forum_name=firestarter-user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestarter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestarter_%28firewall%29#cite_note-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Firestarter_%28firewall%29&oldid=540412481#cite_note-1 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28963553
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