Re: yay!

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 02:10 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Matthew Joyce wrote:
> > mat@mail:~$ uptime
> >  16:21:41 up 397 days,  9:03,  1 user,  load average: 0.11, 0.04, 0.01
> >
> 
> Are you running a 2.0 kernel?  I ask because I know that there have been
> quite a few vulnerabilites disclosed and fixed in the 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6
> kernels in the last 397 days.  Or is that a non-Linux system?

That's only 13 months ago, so it very easily could be a 2.2 or
even a 2.4 kernel.

If it sits behind good firewalls and is only used by 1 person as
a workstation, and doesn't have any un-necessary daemons running,
many/most of those vulnerabilities aren't so critical.

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