Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?
Mike
mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 19:19:43 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes:
> While you could probably patch every hole yourself with source builds or
> rebuilding src rpms from newer fedora versions, you would be better off
> not using Fedora if you can't or don't want to keep up with the upgrade
> cycle, and fortunately there are distributions designed for that
> situation. RHEL5 would be very similar if you want a version with paid
> support or CentOS5 if you don't. Either will have several more years of
> continuing update support. They aren't even such a bad choice for
> desktop use now that the updates have brought OpenOffice and Firefox up
> to near-current releases (an unusual move - most updates are just
> backported bug/security fixes).
Well all but one of the boxes under my control is more up to date but that
one is a laptop physically a long way from me and it will be a while before
I get a chance to have a day away to do the upgrade - I was just looking for
an interim measure....
Thanks anyway.
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