Are you sure regarding to soon 2.4.4 from Mandrake?
And what is "soon"? a day? week? month?
Other than this addition, it is exactly what I wrote....
It seems that we 100% agree ;-)
But the questions really remain (unless you really know that Mandrake is
going to release an updated kernel). So is there any answer?
Eran Levy wrote:
> Hi, I dont know if its off-topic right now but I just wanted to notice some
> things:
> Now the only kernel with the mdk "improvments" is: 2.4.3 - soon 2.4.4 -
> There isnt any mdk patch yet - as I said - soon.
> gresecurity 1.1 is released which means this patch is for 2.4.4
> OpenWall projects released security patch for 2.2.19 kernel -
> http://www.openwall.com/linux/
>
> At 15:11 06/05/01 +0300, you wrote:
> >Oded Arbel wrote:
> >
> > > Actually, what I would like to know is - what happened to the "Secure"
> > > version of Mandrake's 2.2 kernel ? is the 'secure' patches were ported to
> > > 2.4.3mdk ?
> >
> >As far as I understood, this stuff is based on 3rd parties and orgs which
> >didn't make it available for 2.4 yet.
> >
> > > does 2.4.3mdk contains no security patches ?
> >
> >Not the extra ones.
> >
> > > does 2.4.3mdk
> > > contain any Mandrake specific improvments ?
> >
> >No.
> >
> > > does that means that using
> > > 2.4.3mdk is less secure then using 2.2.19mdk-secure ?
> >
> >Yes.
> >
> >In any case, please let me repeat what I wrote in my previous response:
> >
> >If you want to enjoy both of the worlds (2.4 AND security), the best is
> >to take 2.4.4 (with the latest AC patches because of some annoying bugs),
> >and apply the patches of Getrewted (grsecurity 1.0) into it.
> >
> >Unfortunately, this way you lose the non-security patches of Mandrake,
> >and the kernel which comes with Mandrake 8.0 is 2.4.3, which is not the
> >one required for grsecurity 1.0.
> >
> >So the question that I raised before, returns:
> >
> >Where can 2.4.4 kernel WITH Mandrake improvements be found?
> >Or is there any patch which can be applied into the standard Linus kernel
> >that implements Mandrake additions?
> >
> >If there is such a version, you can take it, apply grsecurity, and then
> >enjoy the combination of Mandrake, a 2.4.* kernel, better security, and
> >Mandrake improvements.
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