Steven Pasternak wrote: > I like to keep up-to-date by compiling my own kernel every now-and-then, and > was wonderingm, What are the -ac and -mm patches for? Thanks! -mm: produced by Andrew Morton. Andrew is doing a lot of the stabilisation and merging work for Linus' kernel: this is a staging post for new and experimental code that may or may not be passed on to Linus for his kernel. -ac: produced by Alan Cox. Alan's kernels include bug-fixes (including security fixes), and are used as the basis for the Fedora kernels. Incidentally, Dave Jones has just produced http://people.redhat.com/davej/patchlist-fc3.txt "to counter the 'Fedora has a heavily patched kernel' memes", explaining which patches are in the Fedora kernel and why. Note that Linus is no longer automatically releasing kernels when security problems are found, and I understand that his current 2.6.10 is vulnerable to http://lwn.net/Articles/118964/ , CAN-2005-0001. (FC3 kernels after kernel-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 and FC2 kernels after kernel-2.6.10-1.9_FC2 are fixedxp). Hope this helps, James. -- James Wilkinson | Dell decided to deck its workstation Itanics late last Exeter Devon UK | year citing the compelling reason that it hadn't sold E-mail address: james | any. @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Mike Magee, The Inquirer, 9 January 2002.
