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Supporting older hardwareSupporting older hardwarePosted Sep 17, 2008 11:56 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: Supporting older hardware by dgm Parent article: KS2008: Linux 3.0
Only if you think that the newer kernels do not have security bugs, which seems not to be the case. On the other hand, contemporary crackers, script kiddies might look for only newer bugs and miss the old ones.
Anyway, as far as I know, some bugs in the 2.4.x series are still being fixed. I guess that 2.4.<late> would run on the same hardware as the more than 7 years old 2.4.0.
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Supporting older hardware Posted Sep 18, 2008 6:57 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
new kernels may have new bugs, but they also fix a lot of old bugs.
yes, most bugs that are being fixed were introduced durng the 2.6 days, that could be because there have been more lines of code writen for 2.6 then for all prior kernels combined (I don't know that for sure, but with the pace of development that's happening in 2.6 I would not at all be surprised)
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