On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 07:02, Susumu Takuwa wrote:
> I use Red Hat Linux 9 and XFS, installed from
> `forRH-9.0-SGI-XFS-1.2.0-v0.iso'.
> Recently, someone have found security hole in kernel 2.4 and Red Hat Inc.
> have released update kernel package(*1). So, I'd like to update kernel
> for my system and looked for update package in oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs.
> But I could not find out.
>
> *1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-172.html
Just be warned that, while these RH kernel updates seem to work very
well on typical server hardware and installations, and seem to provide a
significant performance boost over older kernels, there are reports of
it breaking various typical desktop things, such as, in some rare
instances, Mozilla.
There doesn't seem to be a consistent pattern to the problem, though,
and it does happen only in rare circumstances. Or so it seems.
So beware, test, and provide yourself a way out in case things start to
fall apart.
I'll give it myself a try on my home desktop soon.
--
Florin Andrei
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,
while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
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