putty - filepro -sco

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Mark Luljak propounded (on Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:15:18AM -0400):
| Simon--er, no...it was Brian K. White--said:
| > Careful. That version of openssh for osr5 has been obsoleted by several
| > later sco builds.  Obsoleted 2 ways, newer versions, and simpler
| > custom-installable packages, not to mention the intangible blessing of
| > simply being built and packaged by SCO themselves.
| 
| Not to mention security patches too numerous to actually count.  Yours was
| the only pre-OSR6 binary dist of which I was aware, however.

My OSR5 versions were available before Brian's. :-)

| In other words, not something I'd personally take seriously as a robust,
| secure solution.  They'd need to get a lot more serious about it and stop
| relying on a community that's being hamstrung by lack of a decent and
| officially supported ANSI compiler (esp in OSR6) before I'd consider it
| anything other than a poor joke on their part.

I've compiled lots of public code with the OSR 6 compiler.


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JP
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