On 06/02/2015 12:41 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
And I will probably not use these system(s) on line much if any at all. So most of the security issues will fixed or not will not really be a problem in this situation.On 02/06/15 12:49 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:On the other hand, the old releases were updated for all the security problems known at the time. They may well be immune to newer issues introduced after the release became unsupported and there may be few people trying attacks that haven't worked on atypical computers in over a decade.On Tuesday 02 June 2015 17:37:01 Sven Arvidsson wrote:In view of the kernel problem, you are obviously right. But in general, IOn Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:But there's always vintage operating systems for vintage computers :)I thought of DSL. But it needs an i486. :-( http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmallI was thinking more along the lines of really old Debian releases, something that would be contemporary with the hardware.would rather use something that is security updated. So I was trying to think of other possibilities. Lisi
I see I've sparked a pretty good discussion on the list. I sure appreciate all the advice/information it will come in very handy when I actually have the systems in hand.
-- JM