On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 17:00 -0700, Jim Preston wrote: > On Apr 21, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 09:07 +1200, Spiro Harvey wrote: > > > >> But the distro are the ones who gave you outdated unsupported > >> software. > >> Had they provided you with a newer package, you wouldn't have had > >> this > >> problem. > > Spiro, you're missing the point of a distro completely. That is to > > provide a functionally static platform for people to use and release > > to. > > Funny, every distro I have used has had numerous updates till it > reached EOL. Did I believe updates stopped because no new > vulnerabilities exist in the distro? Of course not. Read what I said. *functional* not security. Like, for example, php is at 5.2.6 on lenny, unless you configure is differently. That's the whole point of releases.
Get with it Jim (: Steve -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz Skype: sholdowa
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