Add information concerning tracking security issues and new package versions (Steve Crosby)

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</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>July 9th, 2005 [matt]: Added information regarding security
mailing lists and freshmeat to chapter09/whatnow.xml. Fixes bug 1583. Thanks
to Steve Crosby for the report and the suggested text.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para></listitem>

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list of resources for you.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Maintenance</para>
<para>Bugs and security notices are reported regularly for all software.
As an LFS system has been compiled from source, it is up to you to keep
abreast of such reports. There are several online resources that track
such reports, some of which are shown below:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Freshmeat.net (<ulink url="http://freshmeat.net/"/>)</para>
<para>Freshmeat can notify you (via email) of new versions of packages installed on your system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)</para>
<para>CERT is a mailing list that publishes security alerts concerning various
operating systems and applications. Subscription information is available at
<ulink url="http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/signup.html"/>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Bugtraq</para>
<para>Bugtraq is a full-disclosure computer security mailing list. It publishes
newly discovered security issues, and occasionally potential fixes for them.
Subscription information is available at
<ulink url="http://www.securityfocus.com/archive"/>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Beyond Linux From Scratch</para>
<para>The Beyond Linux From Scratch book covers installation

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!ENTITY version "SVN-20050708">
<!ENTITY releasedate "July 08, 2005">
<!ENTITY version "SVN-20050709">
<!ENTITY releasedate "July 09, 2005">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
<!ENTITY generic-version "svn"> <!-- Use "svn", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->