[plug] kernel driver frusturation

[Craig Foster]

>From SlashDot (/.-so-it-must-be-true department)

Five Stages of Dealing with a Broken Mac (Score:5, Funny)
 by Rick.C (626083) on Saturday May 29, @03:30AM
 http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=109230&cid=9280002
 1. Denial
 2. Denial
 3. Denial
 4. Denial
 5. Buy another Mac 

CraigF.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Craig Ringer
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2004 8:25 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] kernel driver frusturation
> 
> Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 
> > Some hardware isn't supported by 2.4 or 2.6 kernels, e.g. m68k Macs.
> > Though God only knows why you'd want to run Linux on one of those.
> 
> Because a network worm is rather less likely to automatically 
> crack and rootkit a 2.2 m68k box running Apache 2 and OpenSSH 
> 3.6 using common exploits like buffer overruns ;-)
> 
> There's a strong attraction to using weird and possibly old 
> architectures for firewalls and other hardened applications, 
> at least if you're primarily trying to ward off script 
> kiddies and casual attackers. 
> W^X, Exec-shield, etc are helping reduce the advantages of 
> doing so, but I still wouldn't mind a small ppc box for my firewall.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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