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Kernel 2.4.26 Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the living-in-the-safety-zone dept.

StupidKatz writes "Fresh from the oven, the fine folks at kernel.org have released 2.4.26, filled with such yummy goodness as fixes for those damnable mmap() vulns, among other things. Remember to use your favorite mirror!"

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  1. When by odano · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When are they going to start using bittorrent to start distributing these things?

    1. Re:When by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      When are you going to get a clue and simply download the diff between this version and the last version?

  2. Well well, by On+Lawn · · Score: 4, Insightful


    I've just got to say, I think Marcello's done a great job on the 2.4 series. For having to be part political leader, part CS genious, and part referee he's not given many people a reason to complain.

  3. Third party drivers, etc by phorm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well... in the case of my servers - I would need up go to dump the debian/stable modutils in favour of the (I believe still debian/unstable) module loader for a 2.6 kernel (can't remember which it is, but I've done it a few times upgrading desktops). This of course requires upgrading a bunch of other dependant crap.

    And then there's the 3rd-party drivers. RAID controllers, etc etc. Yes, I know 2.6 is supposed to possibly figure out drivers from older kernels, but do I really want to trust that? Some of these don't have 2.6 drivers. Hell, for some they 2.4 drivers were a recent thing... I had a machine which I called the vendor to specifically get a 2.4.xx driver for a multi-modem system since the box was still running 2.2 before a hardware upgrade.

    Being at the latest-and-greatest is good if it provides a noticable benefit vs the drawbacks up grading. In this case, it doesn't.