Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 02:28:51PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On a secondary note, I see armel and armhf? listed there, but what about arm64 since there are now, shipping versions of arm64 out in the wild for at least a year. The first Debian release to support arm64 is the current one. Freexia

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On 02/13/2018 06:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I agree Deloptes, debian's newer releases are generally better, if the ever increasing paranoia can be worked around. The major problems are with the difficulties in building and installing, a newer, realtime kernel for machine control usage, when the

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Wednesday 14 February 2018 03:20:58 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > That, and fighting with my printer because theres no pdf of this > > doco, > > > > > > Hi, agreed that staged boot on non i386 machines is really fun. > At least wit

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

Gene Heskett wrote: > That, and fighting with my printer because theres no pdf of this doco, > > Hi, agreed that staged boot on non i386 machines is really fun. At least with raspberri and the Geode thing I used PXE boot to test the kernel itse

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tuesday 13 February 2018 18:06:31 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 02:28:51PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Those prices would appear to be aimed at a corporate setting, as > > opposed to something that a retiree on SS might be able to afford, > > nor is the plea taken as being aime

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tuesday 13 February 2018 17:02:10 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I wouldn't but they are running stretch just fine once I'd killed > > light-locker. > > I upgraded last year my 10y old Geode with 256MB RAM from wheezy to > jessie to stretch. As this Geode machine is 586 with a strang

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 02:28:51PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Those prices would appear to be aimed at a corporate setting, as opposed > to something that a retiree on SS might be able to afford, nor is the > plea taken as being aimed at me. IMO this is a mistake. I am well aware No, they'

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

Gene Heskett wrote: > I wouldn't but they are running stretch just fine once I'd killed > light-locker. I upgraded last year my 10y old Geode with 256MB RAM from wheezy to jessie to stretch. As this Geode machine is 586 with a strange hd controller, I had to compiled and build the kernel package

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tuesday 13 February 2018 15:10:22 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 14:28:51 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 February 2018 09:28:06 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 11:03:29 (+), Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Hello again, > > > > >

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 14:28:51 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2018 09:28:06 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 11:03:29 (+), Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Hello again, > > > > > Our PCI compliance scanner (probably falsely) claims it's > > > 20

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

Gene Heskett wrote: > I am well aware > of the TANSTAAFL principle, and if the paperwork didn't drown them, > would be able to make an annual donation of perhaps $100 toward the > expenses of the LTS. Tain't much, but how many other old farts like me > would be willing to do likewise? So you can

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tuesday 13 February 2018 09:28:06 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 11:03:29 (+), Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hello again, > > > Our PCI compliance scanner (probably falsely) claims it's > > 2018-05-01. > > > > The Wikipedia page: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:03:29AM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Hi all, > > Our PCI compliance scanner (probably falsely) claims it's 2018-05-01. > > The Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history > just says "May 2018". > > Debian website: > > https://www.debian.org

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 09:50:20AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 09:28:06 AM David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 11:03:29 (+), Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > ... > > > > Our PCI compliance scanner (probably falsely) claims it's 2018-05-01. > > ... > >

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 09:28:06 AM David Wright wrote: > On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 11:03:29 (+), Adam Weremczuk wrote: ... > > Our PCI compliance scanner (probably falsely) claims it's 2018-05-01. ... > No idea, but the people here may by closer to the action: > https://wiki.debian.org/L

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 11:03:29 (+), Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Hi all, Hello again, > Our PCI compliance scanner (probably falsely) claims it's 2018-05-01. > > The Wikipedia page: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history just says "May > 2018". > > Debian website: > > https://ww

end of security support for wheezy LTS

Hi all, Our PCI compliance scanner (probably falsely) claims it's 2018-05-01. The Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history just says "May 2018". Debian website: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ https://wiki.debian.org/LTS clearly states "end of May 2018".