BTW - the problem with rebooting is not kernel problem. Its thinks like my workstation having 40 documents open on it, going back over year I hate to kill my desktop...among other things 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' 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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