[CentOS-devel] ksplice and CentOS

Thu Jul 21 21:31:45 UTC 2011
Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> wrote:
> Do I live in a parallel universe?
> http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/supported-kernels
> has
>
> Ksplice Uptrack supported kernels
> Ksplice Uptrack can bring the following kernels up to date with the
> latest important security and bug fix patches:
>
> Red Hat and CentOS
> All CentOS and RHEL 6 kernels starting with with the official release
> All CentOS and RHEL 5 non-Xen kernels starting with 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
> (released Dec. 5, 2008)
> All CentOS and RHEL 5 Xen kernels starting with 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5xen
> (released June 1, 2009)
> All CentOSPlus 5 non-Xen kernels starting with
> 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus (released Dec. 17, 2008)
> All CentOSPlus 5 Xen kernels starting with
> 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.centos.plusxen (released June 20, 2009)
> All CentOS and RHEL 4 non-Xen kernels starting with 2.6.9-67.EL
> (released Nov. 15, 2007)
> All CentOSPlus 4 "plus.c4" and "plus.c4smp" kernels starting with
> 2.6.9-78.0.8.EL (released Nov. 5, 2008)
>
> and so on?


yes but then in download links you can find only Fedora and Ubuntu.
Also if you select "trial ksplice" only these two distributions ...
while before you could try RH EL and CentOS too and evaluate the
product before buy.
In fact I tried it when there was a serious bug in kernel with root
privileges escalation (CVE-2010-3081) and an open exploit
and verified its goodness.
So +1 for me

Gianluca