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Re: need kernel update for lenny ..



On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:15:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 04:11:04PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:

(...)
 
>> > You don't spell "Security support" as "p, a, t, c, h, e, s" more
>> > below.
>> 
>> What the...? Patches encompass security fixes and more!
> 
> yeah, but, security fixes are applied by the security team, whereas
> patches are applied in the form of "point releases".

But point releases are for those who want to do an install. Patched 
packages are available on the oficial repositories for the rest and come 
in through the usual security repository or that's at least what can be 
read from here:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/errata#pointrelease

>> Sorry, if you pretend that I speak with the precision shown by Dr.
>> Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory TV series you can start
>> forgetting about it :-)
> 
> In that case, your 5 minutes is up. :-)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTl9zYS3_dc

(my English listening skills are not that good... okay, found a Spanish 
subtitled version)

He, he... a must see sketch for many of the Internet users (yup, me 
included) X-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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