Submitted by “Talking with quite a few people at OLS last week, it seems there are still quite a few misconceptions about just how patched various kernels were throughout the history of Red Hat. One particularly egregious statement I heard was ‘Early Red Hat kernels had ~2000 patches’. Here’s some hard facts on exactly how many patches were in each release.”
A default Fedora Core 6 install that I’m just looking at here at work is running 2.6.19, not 2.6.20 like this guy’s table shows.
What’s the deal?
Maybe there was an update?
Yes.
FC6 was released with 2.6.18 (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6). In fact it was something like 2.6.19-rc4.
Current update is 2.6.20 (2.6.20-1.2962.fc6).
There have been several security fixes, and if you still have an FC6 running with a 2.6.19 kernel, you’re running with known security holes.
Oh, I know that. I’m just talking about a fresh installation made from the DVD minutes before I made the comment. 😛
nothing about actual early kernels?
I don’t know the precise numbers, but RedHat 6 kernels were very heavily patched — in those days, any usable kernel was heavily patched.
nothing about actual early kernels?
Have you read comments?
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/85039.html?thread=360495#t3604…