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L. Larssen
writes:
The development of the international kernel patches is dead.
This at least from a user’s point of view. The international kernel
patch, making highlevel volume encryption possible for Linux, has
not been updated since the latest releases of kernel 2.2.18 and
2.4.3.
Anyone looking for the patches for the latest kernels (2.2.19
and 2.4.4) won’t find any.
Since kernel 2.2.19 fixed a serious security bug that was
present in 2.2.x up to 2.2.18, you should expect serious developers
would also release a 2.2.19 patch for those who can’t live without
the high security and volume encryption.
It doesn’t seem to work in the Linux world this way. 2.2.4 also
hasn’t been patched, leaving kernel users of both 2.2.x and 2.4.x
series in the cold without any notice.
No news on the official website at http://www.kerneli.org/
whatsoever.
Nothing about continuance of patching the 2.2.x kernel
series.
No news about delays. Nothing.
I guess the developers think we should be glad there _is_ at
least a website. The changelog usually was versions behind, but is
now up-to-date, forgetting it has the log for both the 2.2.x and
2.4.x patches in one.
With the anouncement of the upcomming releases of the new
kernels 2.2.20 and 2.4.5 in the past weeks all kerneli patch users
started getting worried how far the patching will fall behind. With
the information given on www.kerneli.org it is even a guess not
when, but if there will ever be a next international kernel patch
for the upcomming months.
[ We contacted the maintainer at www.kerneli.org
and invited a response -ed. ]
Fred Mobach writes:
For some time now I am reading stories -agreed, from the
monopolist and his disciples- that the TCO of computer systems
working with GNU/Linux is to high compared to that of computer
systems loaded with the monopolist’s would-be OS’es. The Linux FUD
counter website http://fud-counter.nl.linux.org/ is dedicated to
counter these stories.
I must confess, I was for sure not the best in mathematics and
economy at high school and even worse in university. But the lesson
the monopolist is trying to learn me now is really to difficult for
me to understand.
Let’s see, for some companies I tried to do the math when they
needed a hosting provider. So I looked after some of those
providers and found some very confusing _but noticible_ facts. The
first fact I notices was that I found webhosting companies in the
Netherlands and Germany which showed me the same price
structures.
The company Vuurwerk in the Netherlands
(http://www.vuurwerk.nl/index.html?KOP=pakketten=info) (vuurwerk
translates to firework) offers me the Business pakket EUR 240 /
Hfl. 528.89
Business pakket Windows 2000 EUR 420 / Hfl. 925,56
Corporate pakket EUR 420 / Hfl. 925,56
Corporate pakket Windows 2000 EUR 780 / Hfl. 1.718,89
Enterprise pakket EUR 780 / Hfl. 1.718,89
Enterprise pakket Windows 2000 EUR 1320 / Hfl. 2.908,90
The company HostEurope in Germany
(http://www.hosteurope.de/se_index.htm) offers me dedicated servers
for :
RackPack Linux Intel Celeron 700 MHz-CPU 20 GB HDD, 128 MB DM
192,36
RackPack Win2K Intel Celeron 700 MHz-CPU 20 GB HDD, 128 MB DM
385,70
This is of course not science but just two samples. And these
samples proves me -according to the monopolist’s logic- that 192,36
> 385,70 and 1718,89 > 2908,90.
Really, this math is really confusing to me. Can you help me
?
Have fun,
Fred
-- Fred Mobach - fred@mobach.nl - postmaster@mobach.nl Systemhouse Mobach bv - The Netherlands - since 1976 The Free Transaction Processing Monitor project : http://www.ftpm.org/
spender writes:
No need to wait for an extensive security patch for linux 2.4,
it’s already here. Grsecurity has all the features of the openwall
and hap-linux security patches, as well as enhanced logging, chroot
jail restrictions, trusted path execution, suid/sgid protection,
protection against executing files that are not normally executed,
socket restrictions, and stealth network enhancements. A full list
of features is available on the website at http://www.getrewted.net. Give it a
try!
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