Re: [tlug] Re: [OT] Re: Sorry to Hijack a thread but whats wrongwith LILO

[Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com>]

Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> Josh Glover wrote:
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>>I disagree. Case in point: newer kernels in the 2.4.x series (at least, the
>>ones packaged by Gentoo and Red Hat--I cannot comment on the vanilla tree)
>>allow you to add zlib support *to the kernel*! Needless to say (so why am I
>>saying it?), I avoid such stupidity. I also avoid things like Tux. If you
>>run a webserver in kernel mode, expect buffer overflows, chunking exploits,
>>etc to bite you in the arse, and hard.
> 
> 
> The zlib option is there since the (IIRC 3)

I don't know much about the kernel. Would someone mind explaining 
(briefly) why something like zlib would be included in the kernel?

Brett



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