> > > Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > > > > > > 22:35:31 up 412 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.97, 0.44 > > > > So you are over a year behind in installing security updates for the > > kernel. (I know, if your machine doesn't have untrusted users and is > > well removed or disconnected from the internet, then that doesn't really > > matter). > > This must not be so. Look, In my case I used a self compiled kernel, with > very > few modules. And as the only security holes have been in kernel modules, I > did > not compile, I needed not to install a new kernel. Those modules were just > not > existent. KISS-style. It makes things more secure!
If you use a minimal config then I could believe that but bear in mind Linus famous words of "a bugs a bug". Having looked for security issues in a timely manner myself and having heard someone being very vocal about a security related too like polkit having had atleast one security bug fixed silently. I would still update. I wondered about ksplice once but I believe security restrictions, perhaps grsecurity prevented it from being used which made sense to me. OpenBSD has only had something like two holes in over a decade which is nice for uptime. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/801742.38916...@smtp152.mail.ir2.yahoo.com
