On 17/04/14 01:41 AM, Roger wrote:
This conversation has piqued my curiosity.
Fedora becomes end of life. I'm guessing that means the kernel and
associated components go EOL.
What would be the difference between an EOL well serviced and managed
Fedora 19 and newly installed CentOS6.5 as far as internet safety and
security goes?
As soon as Fedora goes EOL, no more updates are released (1 month after
the second version passed has been released, so F18 went EOL 1 month
after F20 was released).
CentOS gets it's updates from upstream (Red Hat), which is supported for
at least ten years after initial release. So CentOS 6 servers will get
updates until 2020, at least.
I'm guessing that EAL Fedora apps like apache or nginx, php, perl,
python, Ruby, c, mariadb, OpenSSL, firewall and the other security apps
as well as Inkscape, Blender, LibreOffice Firefox, Thunderbird and
others would keep on updating as they do in CentOS until the updates did
not fit with installed kernel requirements which could conceivably be
quite some time down the track. Pardon my terminology, I'm out of depth
here.
Once EOL, nothing gets updated on the OS, period.
I don't remember any conversations for years about attacks on Fedora
system it'self, so what parts of Fedora are or could become dangerous
after EOL down the track?
What would one have to look out for if one does keep an EOL Fedora for a
number of years?
Roger
Once a system stops being updated, it's only a matter of time before it
becomes exploitable. An EOL OS should never be used on a system you care
about.
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