OK, then please tell me, why you have not updated openSSH and ZLib, which can be found in the smeplus script and there being considered as security fixes?
Why do you think these are necessary. What research have you done to verify that the security patches haven't been backported into the current packages included. You can't trust the version numbers to tell you if a security patch has been applied or not. (btw this is all rkhunter does)
-kernel-2.4.20-18.7.i386.rpm
+kernel-2.4.20-37.7.legacy.i386.rpm
Is any S-ATA support added here now?
Unless the stock RH kernel supports SATA then no we don't support that yet. When we move to RHEL4/CentOS4 then the support should be there.
Additionally, I think, that SMTP Auth towards the provider is very important, and since I have written an article about SME server for a german network magazine and have searched for a solution to send mails to the provider, which - at least in Germany - are using SMTP Auth, I can state, that there is no (legally available) solution to get this to work.
You are more then welcome to develop this support and suggest that it be included in the next distro. As far as I know, no one has stepped up and found a way to reliably do this and provide a panel to configure it.
Why would you release a beta with known vulnerabilities ?
Back on your high horse again Dick. You always seem to come in saying that this is vulnerable and this has problems. If you have so much experience in all of this why don't you quit your complaining and start helping. You have been asked many times to point out problems or security issues and have yet to step up and do either.
Whenever I have released betas in the past I've always - always - had latest shipping versions of stable services in them so as then to make sure testing 1) worked 2) could be documented.
This is exactly what we have done. If you look at the fedoralegacy and what we have they are identical. Just because there is a newer version out there doesn't make it necessary or more stable.
Will 6.5 include the hard work of Jesper K etc etc or is that seen as then competing with a Lycoris version that could be easily handbuilt anyway from scripts I assume Jesper will eventually modify.
He is welcome to modify his script to work with 6.5. The reason that many of the packages in that script weren't included was because they aren't really necessary (security fixes, see version crap above), or the contrib packages aren't integrated very well with the template system, or are extras that may either affect stability or security of the base distro.
Not overly impressed so far and only 15 mins into testing.
Well since you are never impressed with anything anyone but you does this really doesn't hold much weight with me and probably a lot of others. Please either be a contributing member of this community or go crawl back in your hole.
-Shad