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| DATE | 2018-03-05 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Year 2038 time set problem
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 07:26:23AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 01:15:03AM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > On 03/05/2018 01:00 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > "How many security issues were those systems
> > > vulnerable to over that period of time? All of them."
> >
> >
> > So I'm understanding. And yet, the kernel is getting harder and harder
> > to manage. It takes hours to just walk through all the choices.
>
> You're doing it wrong. Don't ever walk through "all the choices".
>
> Take a distro kernel, boot your box, plug in all of the devices you want
> to support, then do:
> 'make localmodconfig'
I did a make oldconfig on a virtual system yesterday and it had pages of
choics it considered new. That was on my laptop, a few years old. :(
> in your own kernel drectory and spend 5 minutes building your new
> kernel and then booting into it.
>
> > I went from using opensuse to using a rolling release of Artix, which is
> > arch based. One of the things I've noticed is that the number of kernel
> > upgrades are brisk, which with opensuse, it was rare for a kernel
> > upgrade. I thought most of these upgrades was updated hardware options
> > and features, and not security. Opensuse would get upset if you didn't
> > use their derivative of the kernel.
>
> Then use your distros version of a kernel. opensuse is great, as is
> arch, and a few other community-based distros, like Fedora. I trust
> them to get it right with kernel updates. If you don't want to do it
> yourself, use one of those "big 3" and feel quite comfortable with
> rebooting every few weeks and all will be fine.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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