Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262594AbUJ0UPk (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:15:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262675AbUJ0UNs (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:13:48 -0400 Received: from smtp.dei.uc.pt ([193.137.203.228]:12164 "EHLO smtp.dei.uc.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262432AbUJ0UGm (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:06:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:46:28 +0100 (WEST) From: "Marcos D. Marado Torres" To: John Richard Moser cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , William Lee Irwin III , Willy Tarreau , Rik van Riel , Ed Tomlinson , Massimo Cetra , "'Chuck Ebbert'" <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, "'Bill Davidsen'" , "'linux-kernel'" Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" In-Reply-To: <417FC02C.3090001@comcast.net> Message-ID: References: <20041027051342.GK19761@alpha.home.local> <20041027052321.GT15367@holomorphy.com> <417FA711.90700@comcast.net> <20041027145743.GA16666@thunk.org> <417FC02C.3090001@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-UC-FCTUC-DEI-MailScanner-Information: Please contact helpdesk@dei.uc.pt for more information X-UC-FCTUC-DEI-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: marado@student.dei.uc.pt Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2811 Lines: 57 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, John Richard Moser wrote: > What I *am* aiming for is getting a few security enhancements included > in mainline for several Linux distributions, starting with Debian and > Ubuntu. This will predictibly create a blockage at 2.6.7 (where > PaX/GRSec are, since those are a major part of the scheme); they won't > be able to upgrade past there without losing a major protection, and the > authors will likely continue to simply sit around and wait for 2.6 to > stop changing so damn much. Well, if your target is Debian and Ubunto for starts, then you're discussing this in the wrong mailing list. BTW, on Debian/unstable: root@Atlantis:/usr/src/linux# apt-cache search kernel-image | grep 2.6.8 kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on 386. kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7. kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7 SMP. kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on generic x86_64 systems kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD64 systems kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD64 SMP systems kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel EM64T systems kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel EM64T SMP systems kernel-tree-2.6.8 - Linux kernel tree for building prepackaged Debian kernel images root@Atlantis:/usr/src/linux# If you think the blockage is going to happen in 2.6.7, think twice. Mind Booster Noori - -- /* *************************************************************** */ Marcos Daniel Marado Torres AKA Mind Booster Noori http://student.dei.uc.pt/~marado - marado@student.dei.uc.pt () Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against html email, Microsoft /\ attachments and Software patents. They endanger the World. Sign a petition against patents: http://petition.eurolinux.org /* *************************************************************** */ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFBf/sVmNlq8m+oD34RAlbAAKCSDhKthrmCDC55xa03ZOPvN8iRhwCgtEyD l9vq0gBflZHARKQIQ+OSq/c= =eXD0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/