Newest Gnome versus LTS

[Bret Busby]

On 17/07/2019, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 10:55:44 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>So while checking a version of a package, you should always also check
>>its patchlevel [1].
>
> Right now I wanted to explain this, too, by another post scriptum :).
>
> However, security maintenance requires some user action. The users get
> informed by notices provided by the security teams, as soon as security
> flaws are known, even if fixes do not exist. To care about this is not
> only required related to packages, but also related to hardware. Does
> vendor foo still provide fixed microcode/firmware for old hardware?
> People are wining about 32-bit support dropped by several Linux
> distros, but they ignore that the old hardware is a security risk,
> discontinued and unsupported since long ago.
>
>

Nowadays, all computer users, especially the users who access the
Internet or World Wide Web (which runs on top of the Internet), should
subscribe to and monitor incoming CERT advisories;

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>From memory, the CERT was previously a part of Carnegie Mellon
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The advisories are free, and, worthwhile.

-- 
Bret Busby
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