Kernel (security updates)

[Ugo Bellavance]

William Burns wrote:
> Ugo:
>
> I just switched 3 mail servers over to SuSE from RedHat 7.2
> We're hoping that SuSE9 will be supported for the next 3 years.
>
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>
>> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>>
>>> What linux distro do you use?
>>
>>
>> Fedora
>>
>>> Do they provide security updates to those
>>> stock kernels?
>>
>>
>> Yes
>
>
>
> I thought that security updates for fedora were not a guarantee from
> RedHat.
> If there are going to be community contributed fedora packages, RedHat
> can't be committed to updating them ALL, can they?
>
> Is there a stated policy on what fedora components RedHat will maintain,
> and for how long?
> AFAIK, there are now no updates to RedHat8, or 9.
> Any idea what happens to fedora core-1 support when fedora core-2 comes
> out?
>
> The fedora community might do this (security update) job very well, but
> my company prefers to have a commercial entity back that up w/ a promise.
>
> Alternatively, there IS a not-often mentioned product from RedHat that
> shares the same "bitset" w/ RHEL3.
> Note: RHEL WS would be suitable for a mail server...
> Aside from RHEL AS, ES, and WS, there is still a "retail" version of
> RedHat called "Professional Workstation 3" (RHPW)
> http://www.redhat.com/software/workstation/
> http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rhpw/
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg07331.html
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2003-November/msg00072.html
>
> I've heard that RHPW is available for as low as $50 in certain retail
> outlets.
> It comes w/ 1 year's access to RHN.
> I have yet to get a straight answer as to whether or not security
> updates will be available (ala ftp://updates.redhat.com) beyond that
> first year without re-purchasing RHPW. At least it will be legal to
> continue running it.beyond that first year regardless of the
> practicality of doing so.
> And... (free) source-code versions of all RedHat RPMS should always be
> available for those willing to compile for themselves.
>
> Anyway... I tried Whitebox Linux at home... I like it.
> Anyone who's looking for a "really free" RHEL-substitute should at least
> look there.
> http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/

Yes, I'll probably get taolinux, once I get my Promise Raid cards out of
the way and get 3wares ;).
>
> That being said, I think that the 2.6 kernel and the NSA's SE-Linux
> extentions are going to make any 2.4 based distro look really old really
> soon.
>
> -Bill
>