Hi is it possible to get a SUSE 8.1 Distribution? It is for a customer because their Software wont work with a newer Kernel.
cheers
Dominik
On 07/26/2011 12:06 PM, dominikposch wrote:
> Hi is it possible to get a SUSE 8.1 Distribution? It is for a customer
> because their Software wont work with a newer Kernel.
this question comes up from time to time, and so i have collected some
addresses (but have not checked in over a year which are still good, or
not…so good luck):
repos old discontinued out of date, not supported:
ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/i386/
ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/i386/
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrents&search=suse&category=0&active=1&tracker=0
or http://tinyurl.com/yf7l7ub
and, please be sure your customer doesn’t put that box somewhere that
the crackers can get to…
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DD
Caveat-Hardware-Software
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
thank you, found a working mirror in you list 
On 07/27/2011 09:26 AM, dominikposch wrote:
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> thank you, found a working mirror in you list
great!! hope you don’t overlook: please be sure your customer doesn’t
put that box somewhere that the crackers can get to…
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DD
Caveat-Hardware-Software
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:04:29 +0000, DenverD wrote:
> On 07/27/2011 09:26 AM, dominikposch wrote:
>>
>> thank you, found a working mirror in you list
>
> great!! hope you don’t overlook: please be sure your customer doesn’t
> put that box somewhere that the crackers can get to…
Or at least they properly firewall it.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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On 07/27/2011 07:08 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> hope you don’t overlook: please be sure your customer doesn’t
>> put that box somewhere that the crackers can get to…
>
> Or at least they properly firewall it.
yep, that would also meet the test of ‘somewhere’ safe.
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DD
Caveat-Hardware-Software
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
On 2011-07-27 19:08, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:04:29 +0000, DenverD wrote:
> Or at least they properly firewall it.
That would not be enough: you have to close all ports. If you leave, say,
ssh open, there were holes discovered in ssh in this time, so the machine
would be vulnerable, even though behind a good firewall.
That machine can not serve anything outside a trusted network, ie, a
network where all individuals using it are fully trustworthy.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:47:14 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2011-07-27 19:08, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:04:29 +0000, DenverD wrote:
>
>
>> Or at least they properly firewall it.
>
> That would not be enough: you have to close all ports. If you leave,
> say, ssh open, there were holes discovered in ssh in this time, so the
> machine would be vulnerable, even though behind a good firewall.
>
> That machine can not serve anything outside a trusted network, ie, a
> network where all individuals using it are fully trustworthy.
Depending on the nature of the vulnerability, one might be able to (for
example) use public key authentication instead of password authentication
(something I prefer in any event). But an awareness of the vulns fixed
since then would be essential before making it publicly accessible - and
it would be safer, for example, to connect from an external system to a
known secure system, and then from that secured system to the 8.1 system.
Just like there are ways of deploying Windows securely, you can do so
with an older Linux system. That said, caution is certainly warranted.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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