An important set of stable kernel updates
An important set of stable kernel updates
Posted Oct 21, 2016 14:07 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: An important set of stable kernel updates by ppel512
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Serious question - if it's that big a deal, why aren't you funding the grsecurity team to maintain a Linux-compatible kernel instead of Linus? They've got the technical chops to do so (in spades), and have security views closer to your own, and it would avoid the need to migrate people from Linux to FreeBSD.
This is a social issue, at heart - so far, people prefer Linus's kernel (with Linus's management) to the grsecurity managed fork. Presumably, you have reasons for that, but nonetheless, that's the traditional Free Software way to fix bad management - fork, and be willing to merge together again if the people you've forked from have a change of heart (see also egcs).
Posted Oct 21, 2016 19:15 UTC (Fri)
by antow (guest, #108999)
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That is indeed what I would do if I was making any amount of money running 45 000 instances of Linux.
But alas, we engineers are not actually deciding on these matters, are we?
An important set of stable kernel updates