Re: Secure host newbie

[Xilo Musimene <xilopublic1 () ca inter net>]

Brian Whitehead wrote:
> There is a lot of stuff you'll need to update to be even a little secure. 
> Support for everything up through 8.0 was discontinued back in December. 
> 9.0 will be discontinued next month.  Fedora is their new option for
> people that don't want to pay.  The ES version is not too expensive at
> $349 for commercial use.  If you're stuck with 7.3 because you can't
> download other iso files, you can order a lot of them for under $10.  If
> you are still stuck with 7.3 I would recommend learning about building
> rpm's so that you can download patches for all of the programs that come
> with 7.3.  There have been several security patches since December.

I'll try to update everything that is used on the system.

Thanks,
  Simon



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