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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Member since:2009-07-27
Member since:2009-05-20
Linux advocacy is funny that way.
When you've seen enough of it, you either grow a talent of seeing through it and skipping the idiotism, get overly depressed, or go with the crowd; when something critical is said or discovered about your beloved one, shut your eyes, and just Microsoft yada Groklaw yada BSD bad yada yada Ubuntu yada yada yada.
Member since:2007-09-06
What is there to be critical of? A bit of software had a bug discovered. The important thing is how long that bug remained known before the update became available. Simply counting bugs is the pastime of people with little true security and design understanding.
Bug reported in morning news along with patch (0730 EST). Debian kernel update available and applied (16:30 EST).
That's not all distributions but patch times is how one measures the quality of a general use distribution.
So, where is the grievous apologist back peddling? Where is the straying off topic and undue griefing?
Member since:2009-05-20
Did you actually read the parent post?
He wondered why a news with Linux kernel vulnerability in its title attains comments related to Windows XP.
A legitimate question to which I sarcastically replied that it seems to be the common way things are handled by the Linux advocacy camp in the public internet forums. (I have no idea what was the question you answered.)
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2007-06-16
Even before reading the article I knew what the take of the Linux apologists would be.
Instead of sticking to the subject, and be glad that a patch was done for the issue, they, like always, have to go back and blame Windows for something.
People, get your own life and grow up!