Leon Harris wrote:

> Some information on ETA would be useful then.

Sorry for the delay in responding. We've been trying to figure the ETA,
but it's been elusive. The zlib bugs are shifty.

>> And, in fact, it is likely that one will be able to take the RPMs we
>> will release for 7+ and upgrade a 7.0 machine with those packages. We
>> won't bother with updates to 7.0 simply because 7+ can be considered as
>> the single omnibus patch that fixes all known problems.
>
> It is actually "easier" not to give a rats arse about security, but
> thats hardly the point.

Seth meant easier for *you*. We found this out the hard way when we went
to deploy a new Immunix server here at WireX, and found the amount of
time required to patch it from the CD to up-to-date was unreasonable.

Crispin

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Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com
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