22 Feb
2025
22 Feb
'25
10:24 p.m.
Once upon a time, ToddAndMargo ToddAndMargo@zoho.com said:
I just visited a customer I had designed a Fedora 30 server. That makes the computer eleven years old!
No, it's 11 Fedora releases old, which are roughly twice a year. Fedora 30 was released 2019-04-30. Updates for it ended on 2020-05-26, so it's not connected to a network or exposed to any untrustworthy people.
At $LASTJOB, I found that one customer's primary recursive DNS server had been up without even a reboot from IIRC 2005... this was 2018 or 2019. Sure, it's neat that it stayed up for 13-14 years without an issue, but it WAS connected to the Internet, and was sorely outdated.
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Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net