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[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/7/05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I just noticed there are two version of java in SuSE 9.3. Why? I have the
> 1_4_2 version installed, ¿should I install 1_5 instead?
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> Also, the new version has other packages, like java-1_5_0-sun-alsa and
> java-1_5_0-sun-jdbc, that do not exist in the previous version. The
> description for all rpms is exactly the same, so I can't know what they are
> for.
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> Should I install all of them?
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> Nice "descriptions"... :-(
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> - --
> Cheers,
>        Carlos Robinson
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If you use Java 1.4.2, you may want to know that there is a
potentially a major security hole in it.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061505-sun-java.html

As of 3 weeks ago, Sun was recommending everyone upgrade to Java 1.5
to address the issue.  I don't know if 1.4.2 patches came out or not.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century