Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-247
2004-08-03
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Product     : Fedora Core 2
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.7                      
Release     : 1.494.2.2                  
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system:  memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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Update Information:

This update kernel for Fedora Core 2 contains the security fixes as found by
Paul Starzetz from isec.pl. In addition this kernel contains a significant
number of bugfixes that are inherited from the newer kernel.org kernel this
release is based on.


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* Wed Aug 04 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- fix ppos races

* Sat Jul 17 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- ppc32 embedded updates

* Fri Jul 16 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- make USB modules again and add Alan's real fix for the SMM-meets-USB bug
- 2.6.8-rc1-bk4

* Thu Jul 15 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- 2.6.8-rc1-bk3

* Wed Jul 14 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- add "enforcemodulesig" boot option to make the kernel load signed modules only

* Tue Jul 13 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- updated voluntary preempt
- 2.6.8-rc1

* Thu Jul 08 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- fix boot breakage that was hitting lots of people (Dave Jones)

* Wed Jul 07 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- add voluntary preemption patch from Ingo
- 2.6.7-bk19


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This update can be downloaded from:
    

7c34ff18c58199a9559e41e0a89989f1  SRPMS/kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.src.rpm
2e5ad2234291cbae1717808e5e6b1091  x86_64/kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.x86_64.rpm
8cad3b767b875d9eda43d28e0fe44dcc  x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.x86_64.rpm
b440fc206a2107c88ffbfda43d9de2ef  x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.x86_64.rpm
7fc266322f905637c9d4cb13968c5d00  x86_64/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.noarch.rpm
c74e6ec7c9b3cc8bd0e37792aa6d0ba9  x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.noarch.rpm
e49810ed1e33f0be9841724e57da67dd  i386/kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i586.rpm
866a4597feb9f75d8e9b44ac18e4e498  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i586.rpm
2f3fe2937733e54dbdc40a920d310b21  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i586.rpm
d9edea58c35389d004397c10bcb95892  i386/kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i686.rpm
53ab1cccbb9e5d1db4f41484a04cfc4e  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i686.rpm
b06b13774f0320c064f16340757c053e  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i686.rpm
7fc266322f905637c9d4cb13968c5d00  i386/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.noarch.rpm
c74e6ec7c9b3cc8bd0e37792aa6d0ba9  i386/kernel-doc-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.noarch.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.