>One may argue over whether this policy amounts to hiding security problems, or whether it
will be effective in reducing exploits
(a) clueful people will find the bugs anyway
(b) clueless people should use a distro kernel that is adequately updated
Posted Jul 16, 2008 21:19 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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Not just clueless people: people who have work to do in other areas are better off letting experts take care of the kernel for them. No one has the brain cycles to be expert on the guts of every bit of software they run.