Re: Questions on secure remote access to Fedora Core 2

On 2006-10-26, C. J. Clegg <reply.in.group@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One other question... If I try to upgrade this server to Fedora Core 5,
I'm going to be in for a very big fight (don't ask <sigh>).

I don't mind fighting the fight if it will be truly worth it, so my
question is ... is there any aspect of FC2 that is inherently dangerous
and insecure that got fixed by the time FC5 came out?

Seems unlikely, but if this machine is supposed to be a server-class
machine, you might consider using something more along the lines of
CentOS. Fedora is intended to be more bleeding-edge, and so may not be
quite as stable and well-tested as CentOS (well, tested by proxy,
anyway, through RHEL). You could probably get away with minor
patches to FC2, but I would not take my word for it, as I'm not a Fedora
user.

--keith


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