
POSTED: Jan 9, 2007 10:59 AM (GMT)
Besides the venerabilities stated in the previous post, if you upgrade any package, it’s dependencies will also need to be updated. Running the current version of most linux softwares bring you close the the newer version. So if you do the normal, and necessary, updates to your current installation, you are probably almost there anyway. The way to find out is to go to the distros site and see what version is in each of the OS version’s updates depository for each version of the application in question. In a lot of cases, stable versions get handed down to previous versions of the OS.











