From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 22 1: 9:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imf04bis.bellsouth.net (mail004.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF6037B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmurdock@itraktech.com) Received: from dc12 ([208.61.191.252]) by imf04bis.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.01.01 201-252-104) with SMTP id <20010722081044.IHQJ25860.imf04bis.bellsouth.net@dc12> for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 04:10:44 -0400 Message-ID: <003501c11285$67dd6f00$0201a8c0@bellsouth.net> From: "Jerry Murdock" To: References: Subject: Re: Security Issues And Iso Images Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 04:07:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2479.0006 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2479.0006 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am very curious as to why iso's can not at least be created for the 4.3- > stable branch to address security issues pakages are not much of an issue > but really recompile your kernel now I think that abit much for newbies? A release is not much more than a snapshot of -stable. You want them to do it more often? IMO, it would be a waste of their time. Compiling a kernel is running three simple command lines. Anyone running FreeBSD should get familiar with it - ESPECIALLY anyone concerned with security issues. If you want IPF, IPSEC, IPFW, Bridging, etc, you are looking at a kernel build anyway. > since 4.3 release There are now a few hours of updates to secure it IMHO > thats a little to much we are starting to look like wintendos here? I don't get this. It should involve nothing more than a cvsup of -stable and a make. I am a FreeBSD newbie, so please correct me if I'm wrong. The only time this would take hours is over dial-up on a first-time download of the entire tree. In any event, it would certainly be faster than downloading and burning the entire 650MB iso image. I did my first FreeBSD install via FTP only a month or so ago. It was so painless, the only reason I will ever get the CD image is if it happens to come with a book. Like I said, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. If I'm in left field, let me know. Jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message