Re: Security Patches for Port Applications in Releases

2007-01-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Stevan Tiefert wrote: I installed the new release 6.2 on my workstation. I installed also portaudit and run it immediatly afterwards. What have I to see? 5 vulnerable packages in my release. What was your installation source? I noticed that there are a lot of stale packages on

Re: Security Patches for Port Applications in Releases

2007-01-17 Thread Jason C. Wells
Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I installed the new release 6.2 on my workstation. I installed also portaudit and run it immediatly afterwards. What have I to see? 5 vulnerable packages in my release. The whole OSS community is a moving target. Security is not a static thing. For

Re: Security Patches for Port Applications in Releases

2007-01-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Just to let you know, the http://www.pkgsrc.org/ collection mostly works fine on FreeBSD. It provides a quarterly stable branch that only has updates for security fixes and other essential updates. This has been maintained for a few years now. The quarterly stable branch is not scheduled on

what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-17 Thread deeptech71
Can you install FreeBSD on a 486 machine? ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 January 2007 at 23:21:00 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you install FreeBSD on a 486 machine? Sure. I use one to brew my beer. http://www.lemis.com/grog/brewing/temperature-control.html Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgp1Dc7CI8Qg1.pgp