[CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

[H]

That is correct, not only do I want to, I need to.

Thank you for your explanation of the EPEL policy.

On January 8, 2016 5:43:55 PM EST, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>On 1/8/2016 2:21 PM, H wrote:
>> That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version.
>
>you WANT to run something completely unsupported from about 10 years
>ago 
>which apparently requires software thats known to be insecure and buggy
>
>as all heck.       its 2015, not 2005, 10 years is an eternity in the 
>computer industry.
>
>whatever this 10 year old application is you're trying to get running, 
>it needs to be dragged into a present day state of support.   if this 
>requires reimplementing the clientside applet entirely, so be it.   Do 
>note, Java applets running in web browsers are an almost entirely 
>deprecated technology as there's been a non-stop stream of security 
>problems with the whole java applet concept and implementation.    
>J2SE 
>1.4, a version that was new in 2002, was desupported in 2008.
>
>re; EPEL, as I understand, EPEL drops old versions like a rock the 
>minute they are desupported.
>
>
>-- 
>john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
>
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