[ILUG] Debian or Fedora?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Gavin McCullagh (ilug_gmc at fiachra.ucd.ie):

> Are these installable in stable without heavy dependency issues?  

Honestly, I don't know; I don't run Debian-stable.  If you look in the
matching Packages[.gz] file, you'll see a "Depends" line that lists
all dependencies.

People generally post "You don't get a current kernel" only as a dumbass
trolling point, anyway:  There's nothing wrong with getting a 2.4.18
kernel with backported security fixes, unless you just happen to need
some driver included only in a bleeding-edge one.  In the latter case, 
you can either start with a netinst image tailored for your
problem-child hardware, or just install any old generic kernel that gets
Debian onto the system and use make-kpkg to do a simple compile for
whatever replacement kernel you want.

Note:  Although the kernel images I pointed to a moment ago probably
don't yet have the mremap() bounds-checking fix, these images released
immediately by the Debian Security Team upon discovery of the security
hole do:  http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-413

Those would become automatically available to Debian installations via
apt-get, because lines for http://security.debian.org/ get automatically
included in /etc/apt/sources.list by default.  And _those_ are most
assuredly compatible with woody/stable.

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Rick Moen                                              -- Don Marti
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