thought's about upgrading to RedHat 8.0

[Adam Williams]

>If you're concerned about the Slapper worm, upgrade your Apache+SSL only. 
>For other security updates, if you didn't compile the software yourself, 
>use the RH up2date feature. It should have all the pertinent security fixes 
>available there.

RedHat has OpenSSL packages that resolve the slapper issue available for
all recent releases, and have had since July 29th, before I ever heard
of slapper.

http://www.redhat.com/support/alerts/linux_slapper_worm.html