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Hardware appliances would generally be one place none of these things matter - you know if your gray box ships with a 10gbe card or not, customer doesn’t care a

Hardware appliances would generally be one place none of these things matter - you know if your gray box ships with a 10gbe card or not, customer doesn’t care about userland versions, etc. That said, I also hate working on RHEL 6.

Godel_unicode 8y ago
What's better than a relatively impenetrable appliance? One that manifestly doesn't care about security and therefore uses an old kernel and vulnerable userland. If they use an old unsupported OS, what other vulnerable libraries are hiding inside?
- zxcmx 8y ago
  RHEL 6 is supported until 2024.
  - mmirate 8y ago
    Oh, goody, just in time for the theoreticians to finally tell us that any kind of speculative execution can be made into a security flaw, and that there's nothing to do about it but to crawl back into a hole, err, I mean, back to ARM micro-controllers. :)
    - mycall 8y ago
      RISCV :)
mmirate 8y ago
> none of those things matter ... unless the software's needs evolve over time such as to require them. > you know if your gray box ships with a 10gbe card or not Yes; and lucky we do know. Else, our upcoming model of gray boxes that - unlike their predecessors - aren't approaching EOL but are only available with 10gbe cards ... would already be shipping with broken networking.