Re: Finding an improved release process.
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- Subject: Re: Finding an improved release process.
- From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:44:54 -0500
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Steve Langasek wrote:
> The "existing installer" used a kernel that is not being shipped in sarge,
> and would have installed this kernel, with all its vulnerabilities and lack
> of drivers, onto the installed system as well.
Partially wrong. It would have done that only on the perhaps 15% of
modern hardware that it is able to boot and find a (non-sata) disk drive
on using said ancient kernel. :-P
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see shy jo
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