On 31 Jan 2013, at 09:46, Yasha Karant wrote: > My university network security unit requires that the latest production > releases of particular network applications be installed in order to minimize > security compromises on systems attached to the university LAN. These > applications include typical web browsers and IMAP email clients, such as > Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, Chrome, and MS Internet Explorer (the latter I > personally only run within MS Win, currently MS Win 7, under VirtualBox under > Linux). > > Opera and Chrome install from the respective source vendors. However, both > Firefox and Thunderbird are provided by TUV and thus SL, but at release > versions considerably lower than the current release from Mozilla. I have > found a work around that allows the use of the tar.bz2 installation from > Mozilla on X86-64 SL6x, but one of our technicians mentioned the use of a > repository (Remi) that evidently ports the current Mozilla production > products to EL, including X86-64 EL6. The relevant URLs appear below. > > Is anyone using this repository and these RPMs, and if so, what is the > experience of such use (e.g., are these faithful ports of the Mozilla > production applications that perform the same as current production from > Mozilla)? > > http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/install-firefox-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel > > http://dev.antoinesolutions.com/remi-repository > > Yasha Karant
Hello Yasha, please note that the FF and TB from TUV are fully updated for security - simply, they are from the Extended Support Release (ESR) http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ So your university requirements for security are already satisfied (possibly better satisfied), you don't need to move to the fast-release and less stable "general public" releases, unless you need the features and not the security. Cheers, Sergio -- Sergio Ballestrero ATLAS TDAQ sysadmin team
