In an announcement for the 2.6.25.10 stable kernel , Greg KH noted, "it contains a number of assorted bugfixes all over the tree.
And once again, any users of the 2.6.25 kernel series are STRONGLY encouraged to upgrade to this release." The emphasis on the word strongly led to a lengthy discussion about how security fixes are handled in the Linux Kernel.
Linus Torvalds replied , "I personally consider security bugs to be just 'normal bugs'.
I...
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