Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [security] Big problem on 2.0.x? (fwd) | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:32:09 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > But there are lot of people (mainly companies) that either won't update > > until they have finished evaluating v2.2.xx (somewhere around when we > > release v2.4.5 and v2.2.25 or so...), and others that have custom-made > > drivers that haven't been forward ported to v2.2.xx yet. > > Yep. Minimise changes though.
Example: I maintain a system that will be on 2.0.x until 2009. It uses 5 custom kernel-drivers.
(It's getting an upgrade from 2.0.20 to 2.0.37 in the first quarter of 2000!)
Roger.
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