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SubjectRe: [security] Big problem on 2.0.x? (fwd)
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> 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.

I gather this system works pretty well then...

> (It's getting an upgrade from 2.0.20 to 2.0.37 in the first quarter of
> 2000!)

I do _REALLY_ recommend that you wait for v2.0.39, or at least install
v2.0.38 plus the ip_header fix (that'd be similar to the v2.0.39pre1 patch
that I'm about to drop on Alan soon)

/David
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