On 5/17/24 9:16 PM, Shawn W Dunn wrote:
On 5/17/24 15:00, Felix Miata wrote:
https://ciq.com/whitepaper/vendor-kernels-bugs-stability/
[quote] A vendor kernel is an insecure kernel. A late cycle stabilized vendor kernel is doubly so. [/quote]
If I understand this, it means Leap's default kernels are among the least secure available. :( CUI BONO?
Always consider the source, and what they're trying to sell.
For those who might not be up to speed - CIQ is the corporate backing of Rocky Linux, who established themselves by cloning Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and selling their own service contracts for RHEL / Rocky. When their job got harder after Red Hat decided to follow the letter of the GPL and only provide the source code of the binaries they deliver to the customers to whom they deliver them, and to not have entities like CIQ/Rocky as customers anymore, they helped stir the community outrage machine against Red Hat. Adjacent to the openSUSE project, SUSE did not seize the opportunity to say "if you don't like how this went, here is a better product than RHEL developed by the brilliant minds at SUSE". Instead, they joined forces with CIQ to say "it's so unfair that it's harder for us to pump out RHEL clones now, and since that's all anyone wants to use, we are banding together to help each other ensure the future of copying RHEL". Additional context on CIQ: https://medium.com/@gordon.messmer/will-ciqs-new-support-program-alienate-th...