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From: Grant on 17 May 2010 02:52
Hi there,

This is part of a recent security fix notification:

> New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1,
> 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix a security issue.

That's very good support, no? I started using slackware before 9.1
was released, the oldest version I run here now is 11.0 on one box,
the other boxes have 13.0, a couple are 64 bit.

Grant.
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From: Dan C on 17 May 2010 08:45
On Mon, 17 May 2010 16:52:34 +1000, Grant wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> This is part of a recent security fix notification:
>
> > New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1,
> > 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix a
> > security issue.
>
> That's very good support, no? I started using slackware before 9.1 was
> released, the oldest version I run here now is 11.0 on one box, the
> other boxes have 13.0, a couple are 64 bit.

Indeed it is. Just checked (had to look it up), and Slackware 8.1 was
released on June 18, 2002. That's *EIGHT* years ago, and it's still
getting security updates. Not bad.



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From: Martin on 17 May 2010 17:09
Dan C wrote:

> Indeed it is. Just checked (had to look it up), and Slackware 8.1 was
> released on June 18, 2002. That's *EIGHT* years ago, and it's still
> getting security updates. Not bad.

Wasn't there an 8.1.00 release just days after?

Martin

From: Henrik Carlqvist on 17 May 2010 17:33
Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote:
> > New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1,
> > 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix a
> > security issue.

bash-2.05$ ps -ef | grep fetchmail
root 1797 1 0 Jan20 ? 00:04:03 /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900
bash-2.05$ cat /etc/slackware-version
8.0.0 (�tta)

Ouch, I just missed that. In fact the good maintainance practice started
after version 8.0.

> That's very good support, no?

Yes, the support is good, I'm not complaining about my far to old 8.0
system.

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From: Dirk van Deun on 18 May 2010 07:19
: > Hi there,
: >
: > This is part of a recent security fix notification:
: >
: > > New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1,
: > > 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix a
: > > security issue.
: >
: > That's very good support, no? I started using slackware before 9.1 was
: > released, the oldest version I run here now is 11.0 on one box, the
: > other boxes have 13.0, a couple are 64 bit.

: Indeed it is. Just checked (had to look it up), and Slackware 8.1 was
: released on June 18, 2002. That's *EIGHT* years ago, and it's still
: getting security updates. Not bad.

On the other hand, the older systems are only usable as servers now,
because recent firefox and pidgin and such stuff are not supported
anymore on the older versions, and the old ones are unsafe.

Nevertheless, my 33 Mhz 486SX is still making itself useful thanks to
slackware 8.1, even though it's old enough to vote. :-)

Dirk van Deun
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