CentOS 6 almost ready!

[Lee Reynolds]

I’ve always been very glad that Redhat does this.  Maintaining binary compatibility is a must when you’ve literally got hundreds of distinct systems to support.  

 

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From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Phillip Waclawski
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 12:39 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: CentOS 6 almost ready!

 

Yep, I remember Linus Torvalds yelling at Red Hat for confusing folks that way, but it does make sense for an enterprise distro to do something like that,
Phil W.

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From: "Dennis Kibbe" <dennisk at mesacc.edu>
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 5:23:22 AM
Subject: Re: CentOS 6 almost ready!

On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 12:00 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> 
> > Thanks - I am especially interested in see the SSL updated.  Currently the
> > "stable" SSL available from the repo for CentOs 5 is exploitable.
> 
> There are are no publicly known SSL issues in the openssl 
> maintained by CentOS
> 
> Please state the CVE, or if a private zero day, Lisa, please 
> state the vector so I may set up a unit running the allegedly 
> vulnerable service or services [ie over http, smtp. pop, 
> whatever] for you to demonstrate this assertion
> 
> -- Russ herrold

One thing that people might not realize is that Red Hat back ports
security fixes so you can't just look at the version number and assume
that if it's not the latest it's flawed.

Dennis Kibbe
-- 
Adjunct Faculty
Linux Operating System and System Administration
Business and Computer Information Systems
Mesa Community College

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