On 2011-04-05 09:56:13 Mark wrote: >Hypothetically if a user doesn't want to upgrade to Squeeze, what would they >have to do once Lenny stops being supported by Debian? Eventually, they will get owned and become a zombie that SPAMs (or worse) the rest of us. Depending on the amount of effort you are capable of, this may be decades later. By the time an oldstable is retired, it has already had a lot of attacks thrown at it and hasn't had new code introduced in quite a while. But, eventually, it will happen; sometimes exploits have come out mere weeks after an oldstable is retired that affects the software in it. Please don't use Lenny after Debian drops security support. If you need more support than Debian provides and <= 5 years, install an Ubuntu LTS. If you need more than 5 years of security support, look into SLE* or RHEL. You can get up to 10 years on security support on a SLE* release. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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