Re: [CentOS] kernel security issues

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:34 +0000, "Karanbir Singh" mail-lists@karan.org wrote:

On 01/25/2011 10:24 AM, Dave wrote:

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after watching the security alerts for the centos kernel I've the impression that altought they are fixed fastly there are more alerts than for the vanilla one of the same version.

vanilla one for the same version isnt really that actively maintained is it ? Also, the EL kernels contain a fair bit of backports which makes things a bit more interesting.

Not sure. That's why I'm asking for. eg 2.6.32 >> 2.6.32.28 (longterm) are there only improvements but no fixes?

On the other hand EL kernels are as far as I got information from here more adapted to Industry needs. So they have special code added vanilla kernels don't have. Right?