* Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO
Your confused. This is not an issue of support, this is an issue of the distro not being broken in the first place.
A normal kernal compilation is not a special something which maybe SuSe should allow, it is the corner stone of a working open source system. If the distro is so BROKEN that you can't compile the Linux source code as necessary for security (which as a matter of fact is the issue with the 2.18 code now being insecure), then the system is broken.
That is a bold statement my friend. I compile 1-2 kernels a day, without any problems whatsoever. And you are free to compile your kernel anytime -- you just loose the ability to get installation support. And you _don't_ have to compile your own kernels. How about getting the security updates instead? -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.