vulnerability of Linux

Rudolf Kastl che666 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 15:30:48 UTC 2005


2005/12/1, John Summerfied <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >>Fortunately, that bit my laptop.
> >>Oh, and the first fixed one wasn't, I'm not sure about the second and
> >>about then I lost interest in new kernels for a few months.
> >
> >
> > Luckily the root exploit holes in those kernels weren't being widely
> > exploited in the wild, or you might have been making that car ride. :)
> >
>
> Fedora is not for real work. Fedora is a rolling beta:-)
>
> If it matters, get something more stable wrt changes.
>
> Note, I do use Fedora, but not on servers and not where a breakage matters.
>
> Wrt those serious folk on Nahant, one of them was mumbling the other day
> about 10,000 machines.
>
> You do not roll out updates to 10,000 machines if there is any
> likelihood of something breaking. You do it carefully and infrequently.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
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if you cant handle it on servers you certainly shouldnt use it there.
it is successfully in production use though on various big
projects/sites.

regards,
rudolf kastl




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