> > On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:22 -0400, David wrote: > > On 4/18/2012 11:11 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: > > > My system is secure. Thanks for your concern. > > > > > Fedora 14 is EOL since one month after Fedora 16. Fedora 15 will be EOL > > one month after Fedora 17. A long time with no security patches of any > > kind for any package for you. > > > > I know the type. 'I use Linux so I'm ten feet tall and bullet proof'. > Maybe he is like me and has a machine that he can't upgrade. One of my > machines has an HPT374 IDE RAID controller in it that hasn't worked for > years. Last distro I cleanly loaded was RHEL4 (Whitebox4 actuallu) I > managed to brutally hack the kernel in Fedora 10 with an old out of tree > driver from Highpoint (GPL) to have something a little newer and did it > again for F11 but a major kernel update along that line changed > something I couldn't manage to fix. So that is where that machine stays > until I finally toss the 4x200GB drives in it for a pair of larger ones > connected to the onboard SATA plugs that should be supported. > It is behind a NAT on a home network so I don't worry too much about it > getting hacked. Firefox is almost certainly vulnerable but you rarely > see active attacks in the wild against Linux browsers, especially if you > don't hang out at dodgy sites. And if it happens, guess that will be > the universe saying it is finally time to stop being a cheap bastard and > buy some new drives. I can fully appreciate your situation, if aint broke.... Fedora, Ubuntu and Slackware user Linux counter #386175 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
