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Re: Mandrake 8.0 is out
- To: Eli Marmor <marmor(at-nospam)netmask.it>
- Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.0 is out
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:38:36 +0300 (IDT)
- Cc: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz-home(at-nospam)cobol2java.com>, linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Eli Marmor wrote:
> The following question is specific to Mandrake 8.0, so please don't start
> a religious war:
> BTW, what is the "kernel secure" mode?
> What are exactly its extra features?
Not exactly something for a home systm, At least not the pre-compiled one.
It is compiled with SMP and BIGMEM in, But you have the config file for it
in /usr/share/doc/kernel-* , so you can use it as a base.
> Buffer overflow protection? OpenWall or StackGuard?
Actually, you can download the SRPM and see exactly what patches they pt
in (there are around a 100 of those, I think.
One feature that annoyed me was denying normal user of many permissions in
/proc , which means that for a use 'ps ax ' only shows you processes,
'ifconfig' shows nothing, etc.
> Is it 2.4.3 too or 2.2.19? (I know the standard kernel of 8.0 is 2.4.3;
> This question is about the "kernel secure" option).
Every kernel package has the version number on it, so you can check such a
think simply in the file listing of some mandrake mirror, or in
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html
OK. I looked at the file listing. There is no "secure" kernel for 2.4
You can use the 2.2 kernel (I have no idea if the installer asks you about
this, though).
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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