Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015)
by wildmusings on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:16PM
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Those are the current versions of each. The comparison is between the kernel versions, not the distro version numbers.
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Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015)
by coredog64 on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:37PM
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Even the kernel version isn't particularly helpful, as Red Hat is backporting new features into the version shipped by RHEL 6 and 7.
One specific example is the SO_REUSEPORT socket option which was added to Linux kernel 3.9, and was subsequently backported and became available since RHEL 6.5, which uses version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel.[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Kerne...
"still at version 7" strongly implies a comparison of the distro version numbers.
Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015)
by JdeBP on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:56AM
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No, it does not. It implies that one has been at a particular level for some time, whilst the other has only reached its current level recently. chrisper was very clearly not comparing the release numbers, as xe said. One only need read xyr prior comment in this very same thread where xe was talking about outdatedness of what is currently available.