Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 14th Aug 2009 02:29 UTC
It's the end of the world. Again. According to some Linux developers and security researchers, a bug in the Linux kernel has just been uncovered that makes just about every distribution utilizing kernel 2.4 and 2.6 on just about all architectures since May of 2001 vulnerable to a certain kind of attack.
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RE[4]: Don't say that linux kernel code quality isn't crappy
by Kebabbert on Mon 17th Aug 2009 10:13
in reply to "RE[3]: Don't say that linux kernel code quality isn't crappy"
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IIR that issue correctly you got it the wrong way around. It was Cox who broke it and Torvalds that was against breaking it!
Additionally some random quotes are not a prove of anything, especially in this case as that bug is there for a long time.