On Sat, 18 May 2013 23:22:39 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby <bret busby net> wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 2013, Genghis Khan wrote:Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 01:01:25 From: Genghis Khan <genghiskhan gmx ca> To: Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org> Cc: Bret Busby <bret busby net> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] GNOME3/2 controversy On Sat, 18 May 2013 00:54:45 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby <bret busby net> wrote:A problem that I see with running Debian 5 (I think that I am still running it on our firewall/gateway machine, but that is because the firewall software, which appears to still work, is now obsolete), is that I understand that no updates, security or otherwise, are being provided for Debian 5, which would make Debian 5 a vulnerability (I think). I could be wrong in that.Off topic: Did you refer to FireStarter[1] Firewall? [1]: http://fs-security.com/Yes. It was about a uear ago, that, in response to a query that I posted on the Firestarter list, someone on the list, advised that Firestarter had been abandoned by its developers and was no longer being maintained.
FireStarter is a good firewall GUI. Too bad it is still abandoned. Strangely enough, I was reading that very post while I was receiving your message of Sat, 18 May 2013 00:54:45 +0800 (WST). I assume that this is the post in question: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28963553 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28904834 Sorry for digressing. P.S. I am not bored, I read fast ;-)
But I think that (whilst I am still doing it, which is wrong) people should not still be running Debian 5, as I believe that it is no longer supported by security and otherwise updates.
You are correct. Debian “lenny” Release Information
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 has been superseded by Debian 6.0 ("squeeze").
Security updates have been discontinued as of February 6th, 2012.
: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/ Security Support for Debian 5.0 terminated
The Debian project is proud to have been able to support its old distribution for such a long time and even for one year after a new version has been released.
: http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120209 Debian “etch” Release Information
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 has been superseded by Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
("lenny"). Security updates have been discontinued as of the end of
February 2010.
: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ This PR complement note repeats itself.. Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated
The Debian project is proud to be able to support its old distribution for such a long time and even for one year after a new version has been released.
: http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100121 P.S. I am not bored, I read fast and recall far ;-)
But, as I said (I think), previously, I could be wrong in that belief. And, as I previously said. the person to whom I was referring, was running Debian 5, so he could keep running GNOME 2.x, but, Debian 6.x, that I am running on this workstation, is also running GNOME 2.x, so the person should (unless some other reason exists) now be running Debian 6.x .
Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released
an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.4
: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504 This is unfortunate, I was hoping Debian would be released with Xfce. There is a process to include MATE DE in official debian repository. http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#debian http://packages.debian.org/sid/mate-common
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