<quote who="O Plameras"> > Yes, it is.
Oscar, quite seriously, the concept of "building a kernel" has absolutely nothing to do with security. Someone has been telling you tall stories. Your distribution, one would hope, supplies a fully security-supported, stress-tested kernel, which they'll update when there are vulnerabilities. If you build your own kernel, you have to manage that process on your own, which is a *very* significant undertaking. Building your own kernel makes it *harder* for you to sustainably secure your server. It is *not* "required". If you seriously believe this to be true, you might want to reply with more rationale and detail than "yes, it is", so we can find out where you've gone wrong. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ "'Cause remember, smug is beautiful." - Zachary Beane -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
