BTW - the problem with rebooting is not kernel problem. Its thinks like my workstation having 40 documents open on it, going back over year I hate to kill my desktop...among other things On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 07:26:23AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 01:15:03AM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote: > > On 03/05/2018 01:00 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > "How many security issues were those systems > > > vulnerable to over that period of time? All of them." > > > > > > So I'm understanding. And yet, the kernel is getting harder and harder > > to manage. It takes hours to just walk through all the choices. > > You're doing it wrong. Don't ever walk through "all the choices". > > Take a distro kernel, boot your box, plug in all of the devices you want > to support, then do: > 'make localmodconfig' > in your own kernel drectory and spend 5 minutes building your new > kernel and then booting into it. > > > I went from using opensuse to using a rolling release of Artix, which is > > arch based. One of the things I've noticed is that the number of kernel > > upgrades are brisk, which with opensuse, it was rare for a kernel > > upgrade. I thought most of these upgrades was updated hardware options > > and features, and not security. Opensuse would get upset if you didn't > > use their derivative of the kernel. > > Then use your distros version of a kernel. opensuse is great, as is > arch, and a few other community-based distros, like Fedora. I trust > them to get it right with kernel updates. If you don't want to do it > yourself, use one of those "big 3" and feel quite comfortable with > rebooting every few weeks and all will be fine. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
