I've looked at some of them on occasion. What's really nice is that the SRPMS have the "original" source and patches split out.
Jon On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 07:54, Sven Anderson wrote: > > I have noticed that Red hat came with kernel updates for 7.2 systems after > > September 11.th. > > I was wonder if kernel updates are released often, and if the new updates include > > "open backdoors to the system" for planned bugging or planned intruding. > > > > ___________________ > > You got a lot of smart-assed replies but I would like to say in all > seriousness that if you have ever read the archives of or subscribed to > the kernel list you would probably feel as I do, that there really are > people looking at each and every line of code that gets in there. Open > source coders are a pretty independent lot and would proclaim from the > highest rooftop or at least the place with the greatest bandwidth, that > there was some sort of government conspiracy. > > Keep in mind that Linux development is an international collaboration > and not the effort of a single company on which pressure can be applied > and thus government intervention of this sort is all but impossible. > The red hat patches to the code are not that many and I feel certain > that these are looked at by some of the others as well. > > my $0.02 > > Bret > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
