[ale] kernel numbering

Jonathan Rickman jrickman at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 15:52:27 EST 2005


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:41:19 -0500, James Sumners
<james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically, there is no sense in trying to keep up with the kernel
> numbering any more. I am still running 2.6.7 on my machine because
> there are not any remote exploits that I am aware of and I don't trust
> the later kernels. It used to be that I could upgrade to the newest
> kernels in the stable branch because they were just that -- stable.
> Now, who knows which kernel is stable and which is the testing because
> it is all in the same branch.

And people wonder why I'm spending so much time testing Solaris 10...

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Jonathan



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