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[stevenc]

The computer *industry* prefers we throw old hardware on the scrap-pile, so its employees will not be paid any more to maintain 32-bit kernels. There's...

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Whoever is provided with a grsecurity kernel, has a right to the source code (the whole thing with patches already applied, or a patchset against mainline)....

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That makes it sound better than a quad-core, but it's really not. This configuration on the Odroid XU4 was disappointing for performance and stability,...

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And that totally creeps me out. Do not want. "Intel ME", anyone?...

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If SSE2 and portable C codepaths exist in the same binary, choosing between them at run-time might take... 4 cycles on each call. On your 3GHz+ machine...

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How was Debian broken, I wonder?

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On every version of Debian I'm running, it was an optional loadable kernel module. So just:

and it won't be loaded....

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Why invest any time learning and developing in these trendy new languages, if 2-3 years later they could end up "dead", "unmaintained",...

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Me too, but Haswell is low-end hardware already!? Only one of my production servers has this, all others are older; my workstation older still, and...

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So if you buy into Solaris now, you could run your application until 2034!

The 2017 equivalent would be like, still running Windows 2000...

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On GNU/kFreeBSD, syslog-ng had a similar bug. But overwriting a setuid file resulted in it losing the setuid bit, so it wasn't exploitable like this....

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I'm quite afraid of what 8 MiB or 16 MiB of code could be doing in the background. *If* that was reduced to something like 64 KiB though, I'd feel quite...

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I'd like it this succeed and I'd really love to get one of those machines, but they're just slightly over my budget by about $18k.

[stevenc]

Preferred the original GTA.

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But was that unsigned < 0 comparison in the grsecurity patch, or in the vanilla kernel?