On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Since there are many known security flaws in -9, you should only do this if > you have a properly configured local firewall and are prepared to treat all > local users as having root access. Not a concern: no local users (besides me) and the only network access exposed to the world is port 80... ;P > Alternately you could use the Debian kernel source and build a kernel > configured to use the old IDE driver for this hardware. If I'm gonna build a kernel from source, it'll be a stock kernel. I wouldn't be half surprised if they didn't expose that bug, too... > On the third hand, I suspect that replacing this machine with a PC will > quickly pay for itself in power savings. Agreed, it's something I'll keep in mind for when I'll have to pay for that machine's power ;) -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinfrrxaugl+jvn2hwqvwehgrp_tmp2arcekh...@mail.gmail.com
