Re: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock

From: Alvin Oga (aoga_at_ns.Linux-Consulting.com)
Date: 06/29/04

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    Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:16:15 -0700 (PDT)
To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

    hi ya monique/joey

    On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Joey Hess wrote:

    > Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
    > > I roll my own because, um ... because ...

    because it's fun :-)

    > > touch with what my computer's doing. I do it because I love screwing it
    > > up and seeing LI LI LI LI scroll across my screen *grin*

    and getting to say words one would normally not use
     
    > One real reason
    ..

    and one should harden the kernel to try to prevent buffer overflows
            apply the owl patch ( trivial: patch < ../openwall-patch.diff )

            http://www.openwall.com/linux/
            
            other kernel hardening
            http://www.linux-sec.net/Kernel/

    c ya
    alvin 

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