Re: Obtaining a Newer Kernel
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:04:39 -0500
Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> On 8/26/2012 6:39 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>
> > Experimental kernels are probably better than downloading the source
> > from kernel.org and compiling it.
>
> I disagree. I've been running late model vanilla kernels with Stable
> for many years without issue. Currently I'm running vanilla 3.2.6
> w/Squeeze since shortly after kernel.org released 3.2.6 as stable, on
> one box almost exactly 6 months ago:
>
> Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
> 00:52:24 up 179 days, 12:21, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.09, 0.07
>
> (Wow, 6 months already? Time for me to build a new kernel)
What do you do about security? 3.2.x is already up to .28 - do you
track security discussions vigilantly to ensure that you aren't
vulnerable to anything that's been caught since then?
Celejar
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