Hi, On Friday 16 March 2007 08:21, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
Are you saying that only kernel security issues are relevant?
The next security advisory (from today) was about PHP ...
I'm afraid I just don't get what your talking about :-(
Yes, its becoming obvious.
php and mozilla can be compiled and will run on a wide range of kernels. All of them are available in source code.
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Even running a mail server on an old kernel you can be safe. You would do the due diligence of maintaining the software you were running, such as sendmail, or whatever, (compiling from source) to keep those portions up to date.
Ok. Now I get it. But then you're not really talking about old/unsupported versions anymore. Instead you're talking about something that started as - say - 8.1 but by now has hardly any resemblance to that version anymore. Simply because you kept updating all sensitive components for yourself (requiring more time and expertise than most users will have). And then I agree - of course you can have such a system running secure. Greetings from Stuhr hartmut -- Hartmut Meyer, EMEA NTS Business Development Project Manager SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Volker Smid, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg T: +49 421 3064385 - M: +49 179 2279480 F: +49 421 3064387 - hartmut.meyer@novell.com ---------------------------------------------------- SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 - Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux