:~>Thanks for the tips everyone...
:~>
:~>It just seems rather lame (and like a certain other company *cough*) to be
:~>forced to upgrade to something from a newer version of the OS because of
:~>preexisting security issues. :) If you used the MandrakeUpdate utility as
Sorry, but kernel upgrade for all Mandrake releases is on its way
out. If you want, you can pick it out from cooker, or wait for oficial
release. OK, we should have posted at least "kernel-linus" as soon as we
got a word about all these problems, but no one thought it will take THAT
long to get all the patches working with the new kernel. :-(
:~>intended and didn't really have time to follow the news, it would have
:~>been quite easy to miss these large security holes, which makes
:~>MandrakeUpdate rather worthless.
Well, yes and no. You would not have apreciated a kernel upgrade which
breaks your system either, right? We had to test this first, and some
problems were detected, so we had to make a new version, test it again...
:~>
:~>Oh well... At least I've got a copy of mandrake 7.1 coming in the mail...
Kind of nice, but you will still have to upgrade the kernel :-(
cu
Denis
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