<p dir="ltr">And even when the app vendors provide for the biggies, they TOTALLY don't understand why they work the way they work: so the kernel and libraries are fixed in time for functionality and only updated for bug and security needs; i.e., their damn code will just run fine unless they used a bug or security fault as a feature.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 11, 2015 9:19 PM, "Jerald Sheets" <<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com">questy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The real problem here is brain-dead development methods such as static-linking, and even (yes I’ve seen it) grepping out the /etc/redhat-release and not running if it didn’t say the right thing (even though updating it to say the right thing caused the software to function perfectly).<br>
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Unfortunately, to Jeff’s point, most serious app vendors (and even some not-so-serious ones) will only support the “biggies” of the Linux world such as RedHat & SuSE (and to a lesser extent Debian) even though CentOS is binary compatible to RHEL…. >shrug<<br>
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As much as you and I and everyone else on the list would like all our favorite distros supported, the market just won’t go there.<br>
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> On May 11, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Jeff Hubbs <<a href="mailto:jhubbslist@att.net">jhubbslist@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Gentoo Linux is great at everything but it's especially nice for dev environments. There is no "repo madness;" if you want to carry some really unusual combinations of things or use highly arcane packages (to include apps that you yourself create), you can institutionalize an overlay and the whole systems acts as though your app is simply part of the repository.<br>
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> On 5/11/15 10:05 AM, leam hall wrote:<br>
>> Ah, I've seen those sorts of developer induced cesspools. Sorry to hear, pardner. What's worse is that you'll get blamed for any security event using an unpatched vector.<br>
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>> Personally, I'd ensure your security manager is in the loop. They may be able to give you some weight in pushing for either full patching or dumping that software.<br>
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