On May 10, 2015, at 14:14 40, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > One is that a more up to date kernel/os is more secure against attacks.
FWIW, RedHat (and hence CentOS) are *very* proactive about feeding security fixes (including back ported kernel fixes) into the update pipeline. That being the case, you can regard any Broadcast Appliance setup (CentOS 5 or 6) as being every bit as ‘secure against attacks’ as any brand new setup (assuming, of course, that you actually *install* the updates as they come down). > This is *why* it's an appliance: because that keeps its complexity down > far enough that the people who assembled it can reasonably do all the > support you need on it. Preach it, Bro! :) Bottom line: while the system is indeed there to entertain, it’s not there to entertain *you* (or the operator), but rather your *audience*. You want the base Linux environment (desktop, utilities, etc) to be as stodgy and boring as possible, ‘cause that means you’ve got a better chance that it will also be *stable*. Not for you are spinning 3D cubes on the desktop! Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Even if it erases | | your hard drive, too bad. Although we did fix that bug from the | | last release. | | -- README from the "DJGPP" package | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
