Re: what's about 2.2 kernel?
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:41:52AM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > hi, > > time to release a final 2.2.27 and close the > 2.2 tree ??? > > > The latest 2.2 version : 2.2.26 2004-02-25 00:28 UTC > The latest prepatch 2.2 : 2.2.27-rc2 2005-01-12 23:55 UTC No, I think it would dupe users into thinking that 2.2.27 is up to date, while it would have missed a lot of security fixes. At least in the current situation, people tend not to trust it. It's rather sad that it ended that way, I've been happily putting it everywhere for a long time when I was telling everyone that 2.4 was an unreliable crap. I hope I will never set the same fate to 2.4 :-/ If you're looking for updates for 2.2, you should take a look at OWL and PAX patches, both of those tend to include many security fixes, maybe they're still up to date, but I would doubt about that now. > -- > Politicos de mierda, yo no soy un terrorista. BTW, it would be kind if you could avoid gratuitous bad words in your sig. While LKML has a language of its own, it serves no useful purpose to raise the bar that way. Thanks, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: what's about 2.2 kernel?
On Aug 5 2007 10:41, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > hi, > > time to release a final 2.2.27 and close the > 2.2 tree ??? > > > The latest 2.2 version : 2.2.26 2004-02-25 00:28 UTC > The latest prepatch 2.2 : 2.2.27-rc2 2005-01-12 23:55 UTC No. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
what's about 2.2 kernel?
hi, time to release a final 2.2.27 and close the 2.2 tree ??? The latest 2.2 version : 2.2.26 2004-02-25 00:28 UTC The latest prepatch 2.2 : 2.2.27-rc2 2005-01-12 23:55 UTC regards, -- Politicos de mierda, yo no soy un terrorista. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
what's about 2.2 kernel?
hi, time to release a final 2.2.27 and close the 2.2 tree ??? The latest 2.2 version : 2.2.26 2004-02-25 00:28 UTC The latest prepatch 2.2 : 2.2.27-rc2 2005-01-12 23:55 UTC regards, -- Politicos de mierda, yo no soy un terrorista. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: what's about 2.2 kernel?
On Aug 5 2007 10:41, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: hi, time to release a final 2.2.27 and close the 2.2 tree ??? The latest 2.2 version : 2.2.26 2004-02-25 00:28 UTC The latest prepatch 2.2 : 2.2.27-rc2 2005-01-12 23:55 UTC No. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: what's about 2.2 kernel?
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:41:52AM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: hi, time to release a final 2.2.27 and close the 2.2 tree ??? The latest 2.2 version : 2.2.26 2004-02-25 00:28 UTC The latest prepatch 2.2 : 2.2.27-rc2 2005-01-12 23:55 UTC No, I think it would dupe users into thinking that 2.2.27 is up to date, while it would have missed a lot of security fixes. At least in the current situation, people tend not to trust it. It's rather sad that it ended that way, I've been happily putting it everywhere for a long time when I was telling everyone that 2.4 was an unreliable crap. I hope I will never set the same fate to 2.4 :-/ If you're looking for updates for 2.2, you should take a look at OWL and PAX patches, both of those tend to include many security fixes, maybe they're still up to date, but I would doubt about that now. -- Politicos de mierda, yo no soy un terrorista. BTW, it would be kind if you could avoid gratuitous bad words in your sig. While LKML has a language of its own, it serves no useful purpose to raise the bar that way. Thanks, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
