On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:38:45PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
| On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:58:00PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
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| > I thought Debian Security, for Woody, had an updated 2.4.18 kernel?
|
| Thanks. Somehow I was expecting that for a serious security flaw,
| the new kernel would replace the old ones,
Nope. The whole point of "stable" is that it is stable. IOW,
unchanging. Change isn't stable. It is possible that other changes
in newer kernels will create problems on existing systems. For
security fixes, you want only the fix to the security problem, not any
other features and what-not the ongoing development has produced.
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