Re: do I want to move to Sarge? (was: installing kernel 2.6 on woody)

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/19/05

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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:07:59 -0600

    On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 17:33 -0500, Andy Rowan wrote:
    > Alexei Chetroi wrote
    > > Those depends on libc of greater version than in woody. So you may
    > >install needed packages from http://www.backports.org or build necessary
    > >packages by yourself. But if you are ready to go with 2.6 kernel, may be
    > >it is simpler to go with Sarge? which is going to became stable some day
    > >:)
    >
    > Well, I'm certainly considering it. It does seem like it would be easier
    > than mixing, but I'm reluctant to leave behind the warm hearth of the
    > security team. This machine won't be outside the firewall, but I need to do
    > another one that will, and I want to run the same versions on both to keep
    > things simple. Are people out there running Sarge on exposed servers? I
    > just don't know how much I need to worry about it.
    >
    > The exposed server is going to be doing web, mail, webmail, that kind of
    > stuff.

    If it runs it's own firewall, you eliminate unneeded daemons, don't
    run inherently insecure products like sendmail, make sure that
    all apps are properly configured, keep it up-to-date DON'T RUN X
    ON IT, blah blah, you know, the stuff that you're supposed to do
    anyway, then why not? 

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