[clamav-users] ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.104.0 Release Candidate is here!

[Mark Fortescue]

Hi Joel,

One quick answer to why people do not upgrade the OS is that the 
hardware does not support the upgrade (mostly due to memory and x86_64).

I work with embedded systems where the code is very specific to the 
hardware so new hardware is not an option.

For others it may just be the hassle of starting setting up a new OS and 
fixing all the distribution bugs/annoyances that get installed with each 
new OS all over again.

Regards
	Mark.

On 27/07/2021 16:30, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 27, 2021, at 11:27 AM, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users 
>> <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net <mailto:clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 11:35:29 -0400
>> "Rick Cooper" <rcooper at dwford.com <mailto:rcooper at dwford.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> And what, exactly, is the reason for moving to cmake? I am sure you know
>>> it's going to be problematic for thousands of people so I am curious what
>>> tremendous gain of speed, size, memory usage or seciurity the other users
>>> get from this change, or if it's just a convenience thing for the
>>> developers?
>>
>>
>> I get the impression that *all* recent software development (at least 
>> in Open Source) has given up any notion of backward compatibility. For 
>> example, Firefox (even ESR) has been a disaster in the past few years, 
>> changing the UI with every major release, once totally blowing away 
>> users' bookmarks, and of course, completely invalidating many, many 
>> years of add-on development by many people due to switching from XUL 
>> to the less powerful WebExtensions.
>>
>> Now I wonder what will happen when I next try to build ClamAV on my 
>> three different Debian systems (7, 8 & 10).
> 
> You can’t support everything, forever.  You have to push forward with 
> new tools and technology that make securing your customers easier and 
> better and provide more functionality to us (the authors of the ruleset) 
> to better protect people (you).
> 
> If you’re using security software to protect yourself, why would you not 
> do the most basic things and upgrade the OS of the systems underneath? 
>   I never understood this.
> 
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