2.6.23 kernel

Alastair Neil ajneil at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 05:25:22 UTC 2007


On 10/10/07, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
> >   That is a real bunch of words that mean little to me. As for "roll
> your
> > own" this takes me back to Red Hat 5. Then you had no choice. But today
> I
> > wait for yum update to bring me the one rolled up by the Fedora Experts.
> I
> > have had good luck with them.
>
>
> If I want to let a vendor decide what I will and willnot have in a core
> component of an OS I'll switch to M$ :)
>
> and yes I prefere roll your own, I'm not going to ever need  98% of for
> example the network devices that come configured, conversley I'm not going
> to watch bluetooth, sound and 60% of the crud they include on a production
> server, that means theres 60% more security risk


The vast majority of these things are compiled as modules in the vendor
kernels.  So, unless you are really tight on disk space I fail to see the
validity of your argument.



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