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

[Tobias Diedrich <td@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:

> 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) duplicated zlib inclusions
have been reduced to one shared zlib in the kernel and this option is
only necessary if you don't have any one of those compiled in and want
to keep it possible to add them as a module later IIRC. zlib has been
in the kernel for a long time, but not as explicitly visible to
the admin.

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