On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:11:23PM +0100, Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 14:55:53 +0200, > D Lambrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > Well you can use any kernel from kernel.org > > So the latest is 2.4.24 or 2.6.1. > > thanks, i knew that. but that's beside the point. part of the reason that > i'm running debian is because i don't want to have to do that sort of > thing on my production machine(s). > > i have to say that i find it interesting (in the chinese sense of the > word) that there have been no updated kernel-images for sparc, where > the current ones now have two well known security holes, with exploits > out in the wild.
There's a reason for that, explained in the list archives. Current kernels are getting too big. Right now SILO only supports kernels up to 3.4Megs uncompressed. I am working on SILO right now (even as I type this email) to get it to support kernels up to 8Megs. No sense in releasing kernel packages that wont boot. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
