Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:16:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:16:31 -0500 Received: from barry.mail.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.25]:45833 "EHLO barry.mail.mindspring.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:16:30 -0500 Message-ID: <3E7E5F77.9050608@emageon.com> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:29:27 -0600 From: Brian Tinsley Organization: Emageon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juan Quintela , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 References: <20030323193457.GA14750@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <200303231938.h2NJcAq14927@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20030323194423.GC14750@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <1048448838.1486.12.camel@phantasy.awol.org> <20030323195606.GA15904@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <1048450211.1486.19.camel@phantasy.awol.org> <402760000.1048451441@[10.10.2.4]> <20030323203803.A12220@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <404260000.1048452717@[10.10.2.4]> <86ptohk2mw.fsf@trasno.mitica> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1086 Lines: 31 Juan Quintela wrote: >Here, I completely agree with Pavel, you should never tell that >sentence in that list :) You should use a vendor kernel only if: >- you don't know how to compile your own, and you are not interested > in learn how to do it. >- you are lazy, and think that it is _easier_ for you to use a vendor > kernel. > > > > OR : - you work for people that absolutely freak out because you compile and/or patch your own kernel (yet you continue to torture them by doing so - hehe) - you spend 80 hours a week on your job and don't have time to mess with building and maintaining your own kernels (where's the laziness here?) - you are subject to certain rules and regulations that require a "vendor" to stand behind the various pieces of software that comprise your system (yeah I know, really lame, but a reality) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/