Re: [Security-Discuss] Firefox Backport Request to 10.1

Dieter Schütze wrote:

>The updates for this are exists
>http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:088
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>Are you not in the mailing list for security updates ?
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I did see the security update email message.  And I noticed that Firefox 
was not listed in the Mandrake 10.1 stanza.  I'll be happy to add the 
macro that was mentioned in an earlier thread and try recompiling the 
source  for the 10.2 version in my 10.1 environment.  I had found a 
Firefox package for 10.1 on rpm.pbone.net that had been packaged by H.J. 
Heines of the NL Mandrakeclub.

Our organization is persuing a migration strategy from Windows desktops 
to the LTSP approach on Linux.  Our Terminal server is presently running 
Mandrake 10.1.  Mozilla Firefox has been chosen as our company's 
preferred web browser for at least 8 months now.  This standard browser 
makes one less application users need to learn when switching from 
Windows to Linux.

My concern with purchasing Mandrake's Corporate Desktop server is that 
Mandriva's adoption of new programs and upgrades of existing programs 
might not keep up with the pace of the developers.

In other words, Firefox is an awesome web browser and Mandriva should be 
releasing new versions of it for old versions of the Mandrake operating 
system that are still supported.

Open Office is another example.

I saw the Open Office.org security release about Mandrake's updated 
packages for OOo.  The security patch was backported to 1.1.3!  Why 
didn't you simply bring forward 1.1.4 into the Mandrake 10.1 and 10.0 
environments?

Is there any work going on that would streamline the update download 
process to using diff files?  Consider the recent Open Office upgrade 
was basically the changing of a single file If I read OOo's security 
announcement correctly.

Well I hope to upgrade to Mandriva 2005 LE on our Terminal Server soon 
anyway, but you can imagine the precautions I take, backing up the 
drives, then testing the resulting system to make sure everything from 
Samba to KDM to VMWare to nfs, to X font servers are running properly 
after the upgrade.  Determining if the system is workable and then 
rolling back to the backup if it isn't fixable.

The enterprise version of Mandriva must also integrate Gnome 2.10.1 also 
before we will buy it.

Forgive my at length discussion, but you have my attention, and we are 
seriously considering your business offerings, I hope you will seriously 
consider our feedback.

Sincerley,
Joe Baker


>Regards 
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>Dieter
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>Am Montag, den 16.05.2005, 11:49 -0500 schrieb Joe Baker:
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>>Could we please get a backported release of Firefox 1.0.4 for Mandrake 10.1?
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>>/Joe Baker/
>>Network Administrator
>>NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.
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