Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (555 mails)

[dirk janssen <dirkj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd say: Three cheers for the SuSE folks. You seem to have worked *very*
hard on getting the new kernel out and, considering an earlier post by
Roman (?), the 2.2.19 kernel is very good. Thanks a lot.

Now I don't want to spoil your fun but just as an informative question: I
have always questioned the connection SuSE release 7.1 -- kernel 2.4.0.
Having seen so many kernels come and go, I tend to distrust them when the
minor number is under 8 or so.  Is it true that that connection is made
mostly for marketing reasons (which I don't blame you for, you have to
sell boxes to have the time/money that you spent last weeks)??

And do you indirectly advise us to use the 2.2.19 kernel, unless we have
special needs that are only covered in 2.4.x??  And where does that leave
the super security aware, how does iptables (2.4.x) trade-off against the
overall stability and reliability of 2.2.19??

just musing (while switching over to 2.2.19),
Dirk