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RE: [cobalt-users] Linux Distribution and updates
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Linux Distribution and updates
- From: Fabrice Prémel <fabrice@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Oct 31 03:02:28 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:30:12 -0000, David Etheridge wrote:
>Hi again
>I regularly check the linuxsecurity pages and get the Linux
>newsletter.
>Is there a seperate list for cobalt security then?
Cobalt-security
But, well, a security list doesn't replace putting out tested patches
when needed.
I would advice you to subscribe to bugtraq (see
www.securityfocus.com). Actually, subscribing to both can't hurt,
Cobalt-security is quite quiet.
>
>So being as Cobalt is based on RedHat, then a RedHat update would be
>safe?
No. Some stuff on a Cobalt are quite far from Redhat's. Some updates
will be ok, others won't. I would suggest to download source, compile
as needed, rather than trying to rpm -i some Redhat's package on a
Cobalt. This way, you control everything and you can be quite sure
you won't break something.
Hope that helps,
Fabrice Prémel.