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DATE | 2001-12-02 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: [nylug-talk] Slackware Kernel Question
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Sun Dec 2 10:05:36 2001 Received: from mail.rm-cpa.com (mail.rm-cpa.com [216.112.229.114]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id fB2F5a920612 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 10:05:36 -0500 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (dsl254-112-136.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.112.136]) by mail.rm-cpa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA12595; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 10:01:33 -0500 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id fB2F42520569 for hangout-desteny; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 10:04:02 -0500 Received: from www2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id fB2F42920564; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 10:04:02 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 10:04:02 -0500 From: Ruben Safir To: nylug-talk-at-nylug.org, hangout-at-nylxs.com Cc: nylug-talk-at-nylug.org Subject: [hangout] Re: [nylug-talk] Slackware Kernel Question Message-ID: <20011202100402.A20548-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> References: <3C0A422E.50201-at-bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3C0A422E.50201-at-bellatlantic.net>; from echoi-at-bellatlantic.net on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:01:02 -0500 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.3 Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Ruben Safir List: New Yorkers Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribename-at-domian.com to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Keywords: X-UID: 19614 Status: RO Content-Length: 1143 Lines: 28
That's not completely true. It is often the case the kernel should be upgraded for security purposes. In addition, some useful improvements creep in from the experimental kernels. Vide4Linux was an example of this.
Ruben
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