vulnerability of Linux

[John Summerfied]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:38:51AM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> 
>>>I've been running yum auto-update since it was introduced in Fedora
>>>Core 3 and never had any issues. 
>>
>>Your lack of problems means nothing, faced with the fact that many have 
>>had problems with FC3, including broken 2.6.11 kernels that would not 
>>shut down (my case) or would not boot (others) because of problems with USB.
> 
> 
> Yeah, that sucked. But, well... so what? You could just boot into the old
> kernel until the fixed one came out a few days later.
> 

Most of the machines I tend are a car drive away.

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.



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