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Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 07-03-2010 01:19:49 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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>>> # Fabian Groffen<grobian@g.o> (06 Mar 2010) |
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>>> # Masked for security issues and discontinued interest from upstream to |
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>>> # support non-Windows platforms. Bug #233928 |
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>>> # Pending removal on April 6, 2010 |
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>>> app-antivirus/f-prot |
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>> I use f-prot once in a blue moon and have it installed. While I won't |
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>> miss it, I went to the website out of curiosity. They *claim* to have |
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>> released version 6, which is currently in the tree and is the same |
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>> version for windoze. I did read where they are cutting off windoze 98, |
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>> ME and such. I didn't see any mention of stopping Linux. |
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>> Am I correct to assume that someone has direct contact with them and |
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>> they said they are not fixing Linux issues? |
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> The problem is that the security fixes are in 6.0.9+, whereas the highest |
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> version for Linux (x86) is 6.0.3. Look at this list: |
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> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/ |
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> You can see that for them 64-bit (amd64) is even less important than |
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> x86. |
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Then I guess it is bye bye to f-prot. If they won't keep it up to date, |
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it will either be gone or be dead. |
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Thanks for the link. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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