Linux 2.4.28 Kernel Released

An anonymous reader submits "After numerous exploits were released, the Linux kernel team has released 2.4.28. (ChangeLog). Stefan Esser detailed numerous exploits in the 2.x smbfs; other exploits were reported earlier in the week."

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Re:2.4?

[m50d]

I am still running 2.4, partly because I need the connexant modem drivers and want the free, full speed version, but mostly for one simple reason: 2.6 is not stable.

2.6 changes far too much for a stable kernel. Every version I've tried crashes when switching out of X and then back on my cheap-as-hell TNT2. That I could accept - it's new, after all. What I can't accept is the attitude of the kernel maintainers. They inserted cryptoloop and then took it out in the space of about 5 minor versions. They ripped out the perfectly good cd writing code and replaced it with a buggy, undertested interface, for no other reason as far as I can tell than that Linus doesn't like it. But the last straw for me was Andrew saying that it's up to the distributions to make sure their kernels are stable. Is Pat Volkerding expected to stabilise the zillions of lines of code in the kernel all by himself? Because that's what it seems to be implying. But, more importantly, the linux people are distributing as a stable piece of software, something which they admit is not suitable for end users.

If this goes on, we need a fork. I don't say this lightly, but the maintainers of linux seem to have abandoned the hobbyists it was started for for the sake of the big business redhat/novell distros. And that's not a kernel I want to be relying on. Anyone with me? Or should I just go over to one of the BSDs?