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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:38:17 +0400 (MSD)
From: Lunar <lunar@...d.ru>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ST5481 USB ISDN modem in kernel 2.2.x



On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Solar Designer wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:58:07PM +0400, Lunar wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Solar Designer wrote:
> > > If you pick Linux 2.4.x, you absolutely need to use 2.4.21-ow2
> > > currently.  (For 2.2.x, as old as 2.2.22 which was released last year
> > > is still reasonable to keep on some existing installs.  You can't do
> > > that for 2.4.x, too many 2.4.x-specific critical security holes have
> > > been fixed since then.)
> >
> > Solar, may be use 2.6.xx for OWL Release 1.1 ?
>
> s/OWL/Owl/ please. ;-)
>

Oops, sorry ;-)

> No, I don't see a valid reason to do so unless the release gets
> delayed by at least a year. ;-)
>
> > The Kernel 2.4.x have more bad strings, so as :
> >
> > Copyright (c) International Business Machines Corp., 2001 This program is
> > free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
> > the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
> > Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
> > version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
> > Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the
> > GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the
> > Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
> > 02111-1307, USA. Author: Dipankar Sarma (Based on a Dynix/ptx
> > implementation by Paul Mckenney
>
> I don't understand what is so bad about those copyright notices and
> what you're trying to say by it.
>

IMHO the kernel 2.6.x not include more codes from SCO development ;-)

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