Strongbolt is sold as the Secure Replacement OS for the Cobalt RaQ's and they still run a adword campaign saying Cobalt Linux is to old and that the OS is not supported by anybody anymore... They know very well about my work and now I know very well about there work...

Having a Strongbolt ISO I made my own system and did all the updates I could find. Using "yum update" I saw what looked like the kernel being updated but after reboot I found I was running the same old kernel from August of 2006.

Looking at the Kernel's in /boot I found
[root@localhost ~]# ls -la /boot/
<misc snip>
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1646073 Oct 15 21:42 vmlinux.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1467406 Mar 12 2006 vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.EL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1504704 Nov 2 08:16 vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.0.12.EL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1504719 Sep 27 15:38 vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL

Since this is not a PC the only file the ROM will find and use is the vmlinux.bz2 file which is part of the in ital Strongbold install... This file is also not owned by any rpm package and therefore cannot be updated via rpm/yum/correctly.

Currently no updates have been posted to
http://www.osoffice.co.uk/linux/strongbolt-updates/RaQ3-4/
http://www.osoffice.co.uk/linux/strongbolt-kernels/RaQ3-4/current/
or
http://www.osoffice.co.uk/linux/updates/

This problem has also been noticed by other Strongbolt users and The Question of what Kernel is running (http://www.osoffice.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=514) in the StrongBolt Form has gone unanswered at the time of this post (over 3 months)

The StrongBolt Kernel is not being updated and is currently 1 year and 3 months old and counting...

This is a Security Problem for all StrongBolt Users!

Zeffie, as usual, is desperately trying to preserve his business of selling obsolete Raq4 software. Here is the truth:

1) StrongBolt is an installer for CentOS, not as OS itself;

2) The StrongBolt distro was last released in April, with a Beta release out now (see here (http://www.osoffice.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=398&sid=8ece7070ab177edc312b674cbc2cbdfb));

3) The YUM updater updates the the surrounding software, which is the main security issue; and

4) In any case, CentOS+BQ is based on the Linux 2.6 kernel, as opposed to 2.2, which Zeffies Raq4 software is based on;

5) Finally, every significant Raq support company -- Nuonce (http://www.nuonce.net), RaqPort (//www.raqport.com), SolarSpeed, and others -- now primarily supports CentOS. So you can trust them, or a one-man shop in Michigan.

So, take your choice -- an extremely obsolete system from Zeffie, based on software mostly 4+ years old, or one under active development by hundreds of people, and based on up-to-date Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

p.s. - Just checked -- from /proc/version on my StrongBolt CentOS system (with automatic yum updates):

Linux version 2.6.9-55.0.9.plus.c4 (mockbuild@builder6.centos.org) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)) #1 Sat Sep 29 10:39:13 EDT 2007

Judge for yourself.

"Wrong Again Dude"

The BlueQuartz software is outdated to. I know because I just built all the updates for it.

I think it's time you go look up OS.. it's the Linux kernel in this case and that's all StrongBolt ever made (one time). Then they sold the promise of Security and what do you have... an old kernel that is a Current Target for hackers, old very patchy, and buggy HTTP with 4 CVE's right now! (That is a targert for both Hackers and looks like Spammers these days too... Your unsupported Proftp and sadly outdated and very buggy dovecot have been updated too!

My Servers are PCI Compliant. BlueQuartz is now to, but only because of the updates I've made and you don't have so I don't know how you could be.

Now do you have any technical evidence that my work or anybody else's work is bad? All I hear from you is "Wild Claims" and nothing to back up what your saying...

p.s. - Just checked -- from /proc/version on my StrongBolt CentOS system (with automatic yum updates):

Linux version 2.6.9-55.0.9.plus.c4 (mockbuild@builder6.centos.org) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)) #1 Sat Sep 29 10:39:13 EDT 2007

Judge for yourself.

LOL I will, Your kernel just went backwards and was built by builder6.centos.org and the Centos kernel won't run on a Cobalt without being patched and configured for Cobalt hardware. Everybody knows that... LOL

Pretty sad you have to try and lie about this.

Checkmate.

I'll happily post the version output from anything on my CentOS system to any (reasonable -- i.e. not Zeffie) requester. The ol' Zef doesn't seem to understand how the yum updater works.

Now do you have any technical evidence that my work or anybody else's work is bad?Never said it was "bad" - based on your own released information on this forum, it is simply based on out-of-date software.

I'll happily post the version output from anything on my CentOS system to any (reasonable -- i.e. not Zeffie) requester. The ol' Zef doesn't seem to understand how the yum updater works.

You have already tried to Lie to Prove your point... I don't think you can post anything that could be taken seriously...

The ol' Zef doesn't seem to understand how the yum updater works.

"Wrong Again Dude"

I just built one and it has 3 mirrors. They are all full of BlueQuartz Updates too... Would you like to see the site to go with it? I'm betting you would... lol!

Let's see...
Zeffie's Free RaQ4 Updates "PCI Compliant"
Zeffie's Centos BlueQuartz Updates "PCI Compliant"

Your StrongBolt @$50.00 NOT "PCI Compliant"

If you two wish to argue, we have a PM system you can use for that :agree:

Update!
There are kernel updates for Strongbolt:
The details are on the following page:
http://www.osoffice.co.uk/strongbolt_server_appliances.html

It brings the kernel up to date to version 2.6.20.1

Installed fine on my 2 RaQ4's and my RaQ550 with RAID1 with no probs.

Pango

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