On 2010-05-16 17:42, Dan Naumov wrote:
Hello folks
[snip]
Do you liva by the "If it's not broken, don't fix it" mantra or do you
religiously keep your OS installations up to date?
- Sincerely,
Dan Naumov
Depends on the installation requirements.
I know of two 2.2.8 installations on PII hardware still running like
champs, not a glitch in god knows how many years of 24/7 operation. None
of them are exposed externally so there are no security considerations.
The customers that runs them are still more then happy with their
servers so I'm actually a bit curious to see how long they will keep
them running.
I have a few other servers that are highly exposed. My mantra there is
to run _verified_ software. Not necessarily the latest, but software
that has no known bugs and has been well tested.
To religiously update everytime there is a new version and blame it on
security is stupid. How do you know that a brand new version of a
software does not contain a big gaping security hole unless it has been
tested in the wild yet?
--
R
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