11 Aug
2022
11 Aug
'22
9:46 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 09:39:34AM -0700, saclug(a)garymcglinn.com wrote:
My experience with the upgrade treadmill is that it is
a waste of time.
By its own admission (if a concept can have that) the new versions will
have issues and you need to upgrade. If the issues with an older
version don't affect you, then it is perfectly fine to use it. Why
upgrade and risk the fact that the new issues will affect your use case.
The developers for Fedora 13 were no smarter or dumber than the
developers who are writing Fedora 36. Or pick your distro of choice.
There are probably a boat load of known vulnerabilities in F13. It's
probably a script kitty winter wonderland, depending upon what you have
installed/running! If you you want software that is secure proof, you
have to run something like "Ironsides", written using SPARK/Ada.
https://ironsides.martincarlisle.com/
Beyon that, the best is to keep patching on a stable distro that doesn't
have API changes, or minimal changes.
Brian
--
Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture