There may have been holes found _after_ support for that version was
discontinued. This is a common occurrance. It is best to stick will a
well-supported distro. For an i486, I would suggest that you use Red Hat,
since it is very up-to-date, well-supported and compiled for i386 machines.
Do a minimal installation, choosing only the packages that you want, and you
should be fine.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Each version of Linux is bigger than the last. But are older versions
> necessarily more secure? For example, if I wanted to use LM 6.0 so it'd
> work on my 486, and just try to find out about any security flaws in it and
> fix those? Most of the basic linux programs- cron, ftp, the daemons- stay
> about the same from distro to distro in general, don't they?
>
> Dan
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