When is the Last Time You Booted to Windows?

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 15:07, Dave Jones wrote:

>  > There is a cisco vpn client for linux.  Run that for work all the time.
>  > 
>  > Check their web site for the software or ask you IT group for it.
> 
> It uses a binary only kernel module that frequently causes problems
> judging by the number of reports I've seen in bugzilla tainted by it,
> which magically 'go away' when the user switches to using vpnc.
> 
> One of the horrors of binary kernel modules is they don't keep up
> with the steady release of upstream kernels, so what might work
> fine on one release might break horribly in next weeks updates,
> sometimes in particularly drastic ways like memory corruption
> when then finds its way written out to disk.

That's one way of thinking about it.  The other is that one of
the horrors of running Linux is that every kernel release may
break previously used interfaces and force you to replace all
your tested modules.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com