On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:14 PM, Ruben Safir <ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/04/2018 09:35 PM, Alex Arvelaez wrote: >> If you don't need high availability, what's the problem with the occasional reboot? > > I have a life, and its a chore to reboot the 3 boxes after every > upgrade. It runs my phones, my TV, my house security, and my mail and > webserver and booting them all is a PIA. If it is raining security > holes with every kernel upgrade, that is a big problem, and that is > before all these appliances. > > Advice? Who am I to give advice? On the face of it, I would say they > need to harden the kernel base release. But I am not qualified to give > anyone advice. If a kernel can't be reasonably secure in a 2 year > period, as a consumer I can only be unhappy about it and a bit dismayed. > But no one owes me anything. Now might be a good time to bring up some of Robert Morris Sr' advice: turn it off and unplug it . Otherwise, you have to live with the risk and inconveniences. Jeff _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
