Re: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya monique/joey

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Joey Hess wrote:

> Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> > I roll my own because, um ... because ...

because it's fun :-)

> > touch with what my computer's doing.  I do it because I love screwing it
> > up and seeing LI LI LI LI scroll across my screen *grin*

and getting to say words one would normally not use 
 
> One real reason 
..

and one should harden the kernel to try to prevent buffer overflows
	apply the owl patch ( trivial: patch < ../openwall-patch.diff )

	http://www.openwall.com/linux/
	
	other kernel hardening
	http://www.linux-sec.net/Kernel/

c ya
alvin