[PLUG] Slackware Firefox out of date

[Dick Steffens]

On 12/31/18 9:26 AM, Ben Koenig wrote:
> These are mostly security updates that it pulls in. Set a schedule based on
> your wants and needs.
>
> Some people do weekly. Others monthly. In some cases users will check for
> updates and make a decision to update based on their use case. There is no
> right or wrong way.
>
> To get a sense of how often Slackware pushes out security updates, and the
> importance of these updates, check the changelog
> http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=x86_64

Looking at that list, if I hadn't already done the upgrade the other 
day, I would say I should do it to get the Thunderbird and Firefox 
fixes. The Netatalk I'm not sure about. I read that it's an Apple Filing 
Protocol and is used for print servers. At the moment that's not an 
issue because I haven't got a working (on Linux) printer. But I will be 
trying to get our Brother 7820N printer working again. It is a network 
printer and works on my wife's Win7 machine, and has worked on my Ubuntu 
machines. For some reason it fails to work after awhile. I can't be more 
specific about "awhile" because of how infrequently I print anything. 
It's possible some Ubuntu upgrade overwrites the Brother driver.

Anyway, based on my reading of the above link, It looks like I don't 
need to do anything soon. I like the idea of setting a schedule, but not 
an automated running of the update. What I might do is set up a CRON 
entry to send me an email once a month to remind me to run the script 
from the earlier post.

Thanks for the ideas.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens