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Quote of the week
Given that base 2.6 kernels are shipped by Linus with known unfixed
security holes anyone trying to use them really should be doing some
careful thinking. In truth no 2.6 released kernel is suitable for
anything but beta testing until you add a few patches anyway....
-- Alan CoxI still think the 2.6 model works well because its making very good progress and then others are doing testing and quality management on it. Linus is doing the stuff he is good at and other people are doing the stuff he doesn't. (Log in to post comments)
Quote of the week Posted Jan 20, 2005 6:52 UTC (Thu) by snitm (guest, #4031) [Link] Spoken like the good RedHat employee that he is ;)
Quote of the week Posted Jan 20, 2005 11:28 UTC (Thu) by gallir (guest, #5735) [Link] One of the most clever comment I ever read (really). Thanks for rememberme that everyone opinion is probably subjected to employers' agendas
Agenda? Posted Jan 20, 2005 12:34 UTC (Thu) by hadess (subscriber, #24252) [Link] And what agenda would that be? Something like having a minimum amount of patches to upstream, so that they can do real work?(NB: I work for Red Hat, but don't have an agenda)
Agenda? Posted Jan 21, 2005 23:13 UTC (Fri) by larryr (guest, #4030) [Link] Thanks for remember me that everyone opinion is probably subjected to employers' agendas.And what agenda would that be? Something like having a minimum amount of patches to upstream, so that they can do real work? Maybe an agenda that leads to a presumption that the Linus kernel source code should be "upstream" from the source code used for deployment, rather than ready to be deployed as is. Larry
Quote of the week Posted Jan 20, 2005 13:54 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] Meanwhile, Alan is releasing patches on kernel.org so that people canrun fixed kernels without having to rely on a distro.
Quote of the week Posted Jan 20, 2005 17:04 UTC (Thu) by one2team (guest, #7316) [Link] That's pretty unfair to Alan. He has proven countless time he talked for Linux as a whole first and very exceptionnaly for Red Hat.
Indeed a lot of distributions ship ac-based kernels (not only Red Hat) because as Linus readily admits he's the last one you want for releasing non-beta stuff (and Alan is one of the people that can grok the whole kernel *and* stand going through all the tedious fixes Linus hates).
Quote of the week Posted Jan 20, 2005 21:03 UTC (Thu) by dang (guest, #310) [Link] Um..you are questioning this man's integrity for *what* reason? Please take this crap elsewhere.
Quote of the week Posted Jan 21, 2005 1:19 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] So has everyone lost his sense of humor, or just forgotten what ;) means?Geez, you'd think he insulted the queen.
Quote of the week Posted Jan 21, 2005 18:22 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] Nah, just Dang. Hopefully he was only having a rough day.
Quote of the week Posted Jan 22, 2005 14:58 UTC (Sat) by chip (subscriber, #8258) [Link] And which "known security holes" are these? Shirley, Linus is fixing these as they come to view.
Quote of the week Posted Jan 28, 2005 22:59 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link] Apparently not all of them.
And please don't call us Shirley.
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