[wellylug] Linux Server version

John Durham johndurh at spunge.org
Sun Jan 14 18:31:31 NZDT 2007


Jethro Carr wrote:
>>> No, I am saying that you will get no bug or security patches for
>>> it. It's like Windows 98/Windows 2000/Windows XP. While the prior
>>> versions are supported for a while, they will not be supported for
>>> ever.
>>>
>>> For instance your Apache is version 2.0.50, while the current version
>>> (in Dapper Drake 6.06) is 2.0.55, your mod_Perl is 1.99 while the
>>> Dapper version is 2.0.2, your Perl is 5.8.4 while Dapper has
>>> 5.8.7. and your php is 4.3.8 and the Dapper one is 4.4.4.
>>>       
>> More importantly you will have security holes, probably including some
>> that are remotely exploitable, in the versions of the software you run.
>>
>>
>>     
Meantime I just updated apache from version 3.6 to 4.1 online via 
synaptix. Awaiting guidance on the rest.

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