Monday·09·October·2006
Fedora Legacy useless? //at 15:16 //by abe
For a (much too long) time, we ran our three AMD 64 bit virus scanners and spam filter boxes with Fedora Core 4. Since the the official support ended a few months ago when Fedora Core 6 Test 2 came out, so we decided to switch them over to support through the Fedora Legacy Project.
For testing purposes we first switched over one of the three boxes. But the test failed: Although the changes (as documented on the Fedora Legacy home page) seemed to work fine, not a single update came until the end of last week, even though there were partially remotely exploitable security issues in OpenSSL, OpenSSH, gzip, etc. during that time. There were also no announcements on the list since FC4 switched over to the Fedora Legacy Project, not for FC4 nor for any other distribution maintained by the Fedora Legacy Project.
So what the heck does the Fedora Legacy Project if not security updates?
I would be very happy if I could switch over those boxes to Debian or even Ubuntu, but there’s no BiArch support (running 32 bit applications on 64 bit operating systems transparently) in Debian (and therefore neither in Ubuntu) yet without a lot of manual fiddling and chroots, so we can’t run our 32 bit virus scanners on those 64 bit boxes with a debianesk operating system yet.
Today we’ve upgraded the last of those three boxes to Fedora Core 5.
Tagged as: 64 Bit, Admin, AMD, chroot, Debian, ETH Zürich, Fedora, Fedora Core 4, Fedora Core 5, Fedora Legacy, gzip, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, Rant, Security, Spam, SpamAssassin, Ubuntu, Updates, Virus, WTF
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