Re: kernels exploitable

Didier Spaier <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:58:05 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
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On 23/06/2015 13:35, eleksir wrote
> <offtopic mode on>
> Slackware have kernel-like team management but team itself is not that
> large. And due to very conservative approach to system design and idea
> that software should be as vanilla as possible, and whole distribution
> _must_ be as simple as it really can be - there not too much maintainers
> that support older releases of Slackware.
>
> Thinking of tendency that complexity of software increases with
> development process progressing, Slackware maintainers should think of
> increasing of amount of active team members. But this is separate topic
> to discuss :)
> <offtopic mode off>

Increasing amount of active team members? Theoretically possible but 
unlikely, says my crystal ball. What Eric wrote in this paper[1] nearly 
6 years ago still mostly stands, I think. And confirms what Alan said.

Cheers, Didier

[1]http://www.slackware.com/~alien/tdose2009/t-dose-slackware.pdf