subject: Re: Giving up on Edgy

[sdavmor]

Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:00:35 -0800, sdavmor <sdavmor at systemstheory.net>
> spake thusly:
> 
>> Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
>>> On Sunday 19 November 2006 11:16, my mailbox was graced by a
>>> missive from Michael Satterwhite <michael at weblore.com> who wrote:
>>>
>>>> But that says it all. I use my system for productive work. I *DO*
>>>> expect it to boot on the first try using my LCD monitor ... it
>>>> can't.
>>> Maybe we should keep to LTS releases for machines used in
>>> productive work ?
>> That is a very sensible suggestion. Most of my client's in-store
>> production database servers are still running RH7.x, because there
>> has not been (until now) any practical business reason to "upgrade"
>> them.
> 
> What about security?  Where does one find security updates for an ancient
> unsupported distro?

It hasn't been an issue. Their retail store POS systems are all behind 
a firewall that has all ports turned off except one that points to the 
linux server.  The setup is the same in each location. It has all 
external services turned off so the only thing that will get an 
acknowledgement is an ssh request. And then within the server system 
we have two additional application hoops to jump through.  We are 
looking forward to moving forward to Ubuntu-based servers in the new 
year.  But that's mainly because of the need to to get onto more 
modern hardware and get some (lacking) standardization in place.
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