[dundee] Linux kernel updates

[Hazel McKendrick]

Patched gentoo-sources kernels were released on Sunday.


http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-659999-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html

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On Tuesday 12 February 2008, gordon dunlop wrote:
> Here is the end of the day results:
> Vendors that have patched - Fedora, Linux Mint, openSuSE 10.3,
> Mandriva 2008 & PCLinuxOS 2007.
>
> Vendors that have not patched - Xandros & Sabayon.
> I did get an update though for Samba in Xandros (re - previous Asus posts).
>
> Thanks to Jason for posting the news as it came out, it allowed me to
> monitor the different responses of the system and Linux Vendors. The
> thing is that this vulnerability was not critical:
> http://secunia.com/advisories/28835/
>
> What shows us all is how Linux responds to security unlike a
> proprietary company that waits until the 2nd Tuesday of the month to
> produce patches for CRITICAL flaws within their systems. What do you
> think which set of users feel more safer? Windows users or Linux
> users? I will keep people informed of the Xandros & Sabayon updates.
> Can any other users of distros that I have not mentioned here e.g.
> Gentoo, ArchLinux & Slackware etc. let me know of their patch
> situation please.
>
> Gordon
>
> On 12/02/2008, Arron M Finnon <afinnon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah Gordon,
> >
> > I would have thought that the *buntu/Debian team would have had
> > something out by now, however never shocked at the speed of the RH team
> >
> >
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