Thank you for the URL. There also is a Thunderbird ESR URL --
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/organizations/faq/
Evidently, all security issues are addressed in ESR -- hence the mass
deployed versions on campus should be ESR.
The other issue is "compatibility". The university insists on certain
specific web based applications, including proprietary Blackboard and a
specialized Oracle PeopleSoft application called the Common Management
System (CMS). Is there a means to verify that the current ESR release
meets the requirements of these applications?
Yasha Karant
On 01/31/2013 12:56 AM, Sergio Ballestrero wrote:
On 31 Jan 2013, at 09:46, Yasha Karant wrote:
My university network security unit requires that the latest
production releases of particular network applications be installed in
order to minimize security compromises on systems attached to the
university LAN. These applications include typical web browsers and
IMAP email clients, such as Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, Chrome, and
MS Internet Explorer (the latter I personally only run within MS Win,
currently MS Win 7, under VirtualBox under Linux).
Opera and Chrome install from the respective source vendors. However,
both Firefox and Thunderbird are provided by TUV and thus SL, but at
release versions considerably lower than the current release from
Mozilla. I have found a work around that allows the use of the
tar.bz2 installation from Mozilla on X86-64 SL6x, but one of our
technicians mentioned the use of a repository (Remi) that evidently
ports the current Mozilla production products to EL, including X86-64
EL6. The relevant URLs appear below.
Is anyone using this repository and these RPMs, and if so, what is the
experience of such use (e.g., are these faithful ports of the Mozilla
production applications that perform the same as current production
from Mozilla)?
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/install-firefox-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel
http://dev.antoinesolutions.com/remi-repository
Yasha Karant
Hello Yasha,
please note that the FF and TB from TUV are fully updated for security -
simply, they are from the Extended Support Release (ESR)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
So your university requirements for security are already satisfied
(possibly better satisfied), you don't need to move to the fast-release
and less stable "general public" releases, unless you need the features
and not the security.
Cheers,
Sergio
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Sergio Ballestrero
ATLAS TDAQ sysadmin team
