Re: [Sheflug] 2.4.4

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> writes:

    Will> On Sun, 13 May 2001, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
    >> Previously I tried 2.4.0, 2.4.2, and 2.4.3.  All of them exited
    >> with at least two error messages.  Even the sound works and so
    >> does everything else.  Haven't seen a kernel compile that
    >> smooth for at least a year.

    Will> All the 2.4.x kernels compile cleanly here. 2.4.4 seems OK
    Will> but the fork code seems to have damaged performance to my
    Will> eyes. Hopefully 2.4.5 fixes it.

    >> Following the advice of the SuSE security team I won't be using
    >> it on my net facing box.

    Will> Hmmm, I would imagine 2.4 is at least as secure as 2.2.

Especially with Al Viro doing a bit of a clean up - he seems to be
finding a few format string type bugs, poor error checking, that sort
of thing - something OpenBSD looked a years back.

Look at the recent -ac series change logs, and check Alan Cox's diary.

Baz. 


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