On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 18:14 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > > Vanilla or Debian. Pros and againsts? > > This is what Alan Cox has to say about "vanilla": > > "Given that base 2.6 kernels are shipped by Linus with known unfixed > security holes anyone trying to use them really should be doing some > careful thinking. In truth no 2.6 released kernel is suitable for > anything but beta testing until you add a few patches anyway.... > > I still think the 2.6 model works well because its making very good > progress and then others are doing testing and quality management on > it. Linus is doing the stuff he is good at and other people are doing > the stuff he doesn't." > > -- Alan Cox > > Cant say i going to go against the advice of Alan Cox :) ive got the debian patched sources working now so all is well, bit touch and go for a while though. Cheers -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Glyn Tebbutt | d3c3it-linux@ntlworld.com | |--------------' http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d3c3it | | gpg-key: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d3c3it/d3c3it.gpg | | Lisa, if we conserve the environmentalist win | | -Homer Simpson | +---------------------------------------------------------+
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