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Re: ISDN with RedHat 6.0?
AS>> That mightly sucks. 1) they can add security holes with their patches,
AS>> and little people would know because the code isn't reviewed like the
AS>> rest of the kernel, actually most people don't see that code at all;
Same with every program - most people never carefully examine source.
That's your own decision about security/usability tradeoff - or you
sacrifice your time and comfort, or you get security risk.
AS>> 2) if the kernel crashes you can't easily submit a bug to linux-kernel
AS>> because who knows whose fault it is, the kernel deevlopers' or Red
AS>> Hat's; 3) this general approach -- of forking your own version instead
AS>> of doing the regular well-established route of submitting the patches
AS>> to linux-kernel -- makes me sick.
That's not right. All sources of RH packages are public. You can review
them at will.
I, personally, always compile new kernel on RH installations, but not
because of paranoia towards RH developers (it might be the same people who
do GNOME, E, etc. - I have much respect for them). But because RH kernel
is general - i.e., unoptimized, has many parts that I do not need and may
not have the parts I do need. And it's almost always not recent. So I
download newest kernel, configure it for my optimal config and restart.
But if you doubt your expertise in this matter, you'd better use stock RH
kernel - it works.
AS>> What the hell is going on here? How do people accept this kind of
AS>> thing so lightly? I don't get this...
If three people tell you you're drunk - you should go to bed and sleep :))
If three people accept this, this might be not so bad for them :))
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