Year 2038 time set problem

[Ruben Safir]

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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