2.6.23 kernel

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Oct 14 09:28:18 UTC 2007


Res wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>>> So you don't copy over your '.config'? you spend 30 minutes each time 
>>> re-inventing your wheel :) maybe you should be vanished back to 
>>> winblows then, as you seem to like bloated vendor OS's/kernels you'll 
>>> be right at home, then again, many people now days say Raleigh is 
>>> Redmond so what does it matter.
>>
>> Have you evaluated your savings in compiling your own kernel? Vendors' 
>> kernels may be comprehensive, but I doubt that they actually use more 
>> RAM than a self-compiled one does.
> 
> bloated kernels increase the probability of exploits

If someone gets close enough to use an otherwise-unused kernel module, 
the battle's already gone to the intruder.

> 
>>
>> My concern with building a kernel that's significantly different from 
>> the vendors' is that vendors' scripts make some assumptions, such as 
>> that one uses modules, such as that certain modules are available.
> 
> Well, thats why in slackware we dont have this problem, and on my last 
> remaining fedora desktop boxes, they are so unlike what the distro was
> it wouldnt be an issue, thres not a hell of a lot left.

Bye

> 
> 


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Cheers
John

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