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Stable kernel 2.6.32.6

Stable kernel 2.6.32.6

Posted Jan 27, 2010 6:06 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Stable kernel 2.6.32.6 by viiru
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.32.6

If kernel developers don't know this, then how on earth are regular folks supposed to know? (rhetorical)

Just excuses, IMHO. If something is _known_ to have security implications, then it should be called a security fix. The rest of the stuff, of course, _may_ have security implications too, but they are not yet known.

Every other software on the planet uses this convention, but Linux developers decided to obfuscate. Ah, well...


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