On Wed Feb 05, 2003 at 06:44:05PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Great..... after september 30 this year I won't have a single > > > supportable box.... Ummmm Gentlemen..... Are you going to give me new > > > laptops with my 9.1 distro? It wouldn't be a problem if I could manage > > > to get software that would last as long as my hardware... well... let's > > > see 8 years on Win95 ... 6 on 98 ...... hmmmm me thinks the product > > > life cycle is toooooooo short. > > > > Don't even begin comparing us to Microsoft. You should know better. > > How much cash does Microsoft have in reserve? How much does > > MandrakeSoft? > > There has to be a limit as to what is affordable in the way of support. When > it comes down to it, only security is an issue to someone continuing to use > an older distro if they choose to do so. If maintaining security updates is > too difficult, might it be feasible to maintain a page of link to security > updates that those running crucial servers could use? Since those users are > most likely to compile their own, it sounds feasible. What do you think?
That's what MandrakeSecure, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, updates for newer distribs, are all for. Put it this way: Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you should already be subscribed if you care about security anyways)... you will be alerted on new updates whether they are security or bugfix. The advisory indicates what packages are updated, for what distrib, and what the problem is. Visit http://www.mandrakesecure.net/advisories/ if you don't want to subscribe. The advisories for each platform are there. Download the src.rpm indicated in the advisory. Either attempt to rebuild it for your old distrib, or extract the patches and apply it to whatever version you're currently using (backporting is likely necessary). The information is already all there, and I'm willing to bet that people who haven't upgraded their 7.1 machines are using this information to keep their 7.1 system relatively current. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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