Quoting Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com>: > > So, yes there are deeply compelling reasons to upgrade. If you want to > > have patches for several kernel buffer exploits, as well as many other > > security and functionality patches, you need to do one thing; > > > > yum upgrade, and answer yes. > > > > Or even easier; > > yum -y upgrade. > > When I have some time to re-compile VMWare server modules, my graphics > driver, > vpn client and wifi driver I may consider updating. If in the meantime a > pack > of ninjas breaks in and owns my box with a local buffer overrun exploit, > well, > you can't say I wasn't warned. It may not work for all things, but have you looked at dkms? <http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms> Dag/rpmforge has packages as well.