[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 0.7.1 RH 7.3 RPMS Released

[WipeOut]

Ken Godee wrote:

>>> This is great to see.. but why RH7.3 (or RH8 for that matter) since 
>>> it has already been EOL'ed by RH??
>>
>>
>>
>> Couple of reasons..
>>
>> 1. It is a stable, known quantity that uses solid components and 
>> closely mirrors the environment that a lot of people develop Asterisk 
>> on. It isn't going to drastically change, so those wishing to deploy 
>> it in production may look to RedHat 7.3 as a stable platform for that 
>> purpose.
>>
>
> I agree, keep up the good work.
>
> I personally don't see any reason to upgrade atleast until the
> 2.6.x kernel is well underway. Maybe that's just me, hell I'm
> still running a 4.11 Novell server and a SCO Open server that hasn't
> been touched since y2k upgrades.
>
I am guessing your systems are not connected to the internet then.. :)

The problem with running servers based on RH 6.x, 7.x and 8 is that RH 
is not providing errata (security specifically) updates any more.. If 
you servers are not connected to the internet then, sure stay with the 
versions that are working for you, but if you have you server live on 
the internet for ant reason then this is a big issue..

I realise that many vulnerabilities require local access but I am still 
not going to take the chance.. I want my servers as safe as possible, 
and if that means running the latest versions of whatever then thats 
what I am going to do.. :)

Later..