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RE: Looking for a Newer Kernel (was "Newer Kernel")

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, daeubebe wrote:

> >The handful of us who still do work developing MkLinux do at least try to
> >keep pre-R1 secure, which means keeping parts of the userland current.
> >Make sure you dig into the contrib directory and update any packages for
> >programs that you're using. There have been known holes in BIND, ftpd,
> >sendmail, and openssh over the last year or so. If you find any security
> >updates that I've missed, please shout.
>
> Are you saying, Dave, that mk-linux is not secure?

No, I'm saying that individual packages periodically need maintenance as
new vulnerabilities are discovered (generally on x86), and that I'm doing
said maintenance. Whenever a security update comes out, you'll see a post
here and on mklinux-announce.

One of the first rules of security is that no system is ever truly
completely secure. When folks say that a system is "secure", they
generally mean that no vulnerabilities have been found -yet-. :-)

That having been said, 99% of the exploits here are unexploitable on
PowerPC, and most of the others are so hard that I know the names and
addresses of almost everyone who could pull them off. We mostly do
security updates on the PowerPC platform "just in case" rather than
because someone has actually exploited any of these holes. To my
knowledge, there haven't been any successful exploits on PowerPC hardware
under Linux except for one "proof of concept" hack that involved about
half of the LinuxPPC core team helping out for several weeks.... However,
it is always a good idea to keep your system up-to-date with the latest
stuff in contrib.


> I'm planning on
> converting my 5260 box to a ftp/streaming server and I need to know
> malicious types can't get into my system when I don't want them to. Even
> still, can mk-linux even support that sort of load?

Should, if you can get the network working on the 5260.... I think the
monolithic guys have a kernel that might support certain cards, but I
could be wrong.


> Oh, and on a
> related note, does anyone know if the 5260 is even a NuBus machine?

The 5260 is a Quadra 630 with a PowerPC upgrade card grafted in where the
68040 used to be, with new roms and some slight chip re-revs. It isn't
NuBus in the 61/71/81/91xx definition of the word, but it is NuBus-based.


> It
> doesn't say Performa anywhere on it and the Apple spec database makes a
> clear delination between Performa 5260 and the Power Mac 5260. Are they
> distinct, or just the same computer with a different name?

Same machine, different market segment, to my knowledge.


> Also, does
> anyone know of a place where I can get a much bigger hard drive for this
> machine? I wouldn't be suprised if Mac used some sort of weird varation
> of IDE for its purposes. Thanks.

Any IDE drive should work.


Later,
David

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