Todd Zullinger wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Actually, since this is all "noarch" stuff which doesn't depend on
release, that's irrelevant, other than his needed to download it by
hand.
I think it is quite relevant, especially for someone looking for
wireless firmware. He'd be exposing a system that has not had any
security updates for over a year wirelessly. That's not a wise idea
at all, and one that I think should be discouraged on this list.
Feel free, I simply don't think that connecting via wireless is going to
make him notably less secure than connecting via wire. Attacks rarely
depend on something as arcane as running wireless on a year old Linux
security level, the incremental risk is small, assuming the features of
wireless security are followed, and that's modem settings rather than
o/s on modern hardware.
Since some hardware vendors haven't moved beyond FC6, a lot of
people need to stay with it. Ubuntu has a better idea here, to make
a version every once in a while a LTS version, to encourage vendors
to support it.
The effort to support such a release is quite high. I rather like
Todd Denniston's suggestion that RHEL/CentOS releases are comparable
to Ubuntu's LTS releases in many ways.
My impression is that Ubuntu follows upgrades while RHEL patches bugs,
but I haven't done a real analysis of the updates as they come in, so
don't ignore "impression" and think I spoke with certainty.
But for better or worse, Fedora releases are only supported for ~13
months. And I think it's a disservice to encourage anyone to run them
on a network after they've been EOL'd. (I say this as someone that
has some ancient RHL servers in production still. But I assume all
the risks and effort required to keep them properly updated.)
I'm reading this while building the new named from ISC in a VM, so I can
install it on a machine which has no compilers (for security reasons)
and which has a poor justification for a full upgrade.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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