Re: how do you handle (un)supported linux distributions?

2011-05-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 15:46, Gabor Szabo wrote: >> The version I use on the serve is the LTS (Long Term Support) which >> is supported for 5 years. We are in mid-term. >> > > So it is a supported OS. Your subject line implied that it is no

Re: how do you handle (un)supported linux distributions?

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 15:46, Gabor Szabo wrote: > The version I use on the serve is the LTS (Long Term Support) which > is supported for 5 years. We are in mid-term. > So it is a supported OS. Your subject line implied that it is no longer receiving [security] updates. > While the upgrades of

Re: Cell phone to send SMSs?

2011-05-19 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Ehud Karni wrote: > For sending SMSs only, I think a cheaper solution is to use an Internet > SMS gateway (We use UNICELL). > > Check "sms gateway israel" in google. But Geoff specifically said he could not (or did not want to) use Internet -- Oleg Goldshmidt

Re: Cell phone to send SMSs?

2011-05-19 Thread Ehud Karni
On Tue, 17 May 2011 23:12:05, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > Does anyone know the cheapest (or just a cheap one) GSM phone with a > USB interface that is supported by a Linux program to send SMSs? > > In other words, I want to write a program to monitor various > conditions and then send me an SMS i

Re: how do you handle (un)supported linux distributions?

2011-05-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > For a desktop you can run an unsupported OS, such as an old Fedora. > But for a server, use only a supported OS. Server operating systems > generally are supported for five to nine years. Just look at RHEL, > version 4.9 was released shortly