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You should clarify that it only applies to the x32 ABI. Which is only used on the(already vastly irresponsibly-constructed) Ubuntu 13.10.
by microcolonel 13y ago
You should clarify that it only applies to the x32 ABI.
Which is only used on the(already vastly irresponsibly-constructed) Ubuntu 13.10.
- taf2 13y agowhy is it "vastly irresponsibly-constructed" ? I mean major hosting providers like rackspace use it... so ??
- nilved 13y agorackspace eats vaseline on toast
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- rodgerd 13y agoHere's why the Fedora maintainers rejected request to enable it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854317 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854317 * It's new and unanalyzed for security flaws. * It's useless without the right userland tools, which don't exist. Ubuntu switched it on either because they have no clues, or because they wanted a checkbox to say "look, we have features no-one else does!!!!".
- aortega 13y agoThe main problem with Fedora is that it usually doesn't work. At all.
- growupkids 13y agoIs this a joke?
- jjoonathan 13y agoI wish. -Someone who just spent half of a perfectly good day wrestling with their buggy installer
- rodgerd 13y agoI guess I'm imagining all these working installs then.
- slug 13y agoThere was a new deb package hitting the repos a few hours after the CVE, so it doesn't seem that they are sleeping on the job...
- Daviey 13y agoWhat a ridiculous comment, a non-LTS release introducing new features are one of its core features. A security issue being introduced via upstream code is not something that should be an opportunity to berate Ubuntu. The way Ubuntu responded with a super quick turnaround should be praised. Note, that Kees who raised it to linux-distro’s is a member of the Ubuntu Technical Board, Ubuntu provided a fixed kernel as part of the embargoed security window of a mere 2 days(!) and Kamal Mostafa (Canonical) provided a rebased patch back to upstream Linux 3.8. Ubuntu was even praised on the disclosure thread [0], for this super-fast turnaround. This only cements my confidence in the Ubuntu product.. and has helped sow the seeds for an exciting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release. Seems the whole process worked as a well-oiled machine, making the whole Linux ecosystem safer. Note, these types of issues only tend to get discovered when they are enabled in the wild. [0] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/201 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/201
- microcolonel 13y agoFedora and Archlinux are both bleeding-edge upstream releases, and neither of them were comfortable enabling X32.