[PLUG] Slackware Firefox out of date

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Mon Dec 31 20:32:33 UTC 2018


I think Netatalk might be a really old mac protocol.
These days Apple and Linux (and probably BSD) use CUPS. I've never seen a
reason to enable the atalk service.

But if you see security updates for 'cups', yeah you want those for your
printer.

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 10:27 AM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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