Re: [SLUG] Maybe trying out gentoo again

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote:
>Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>>Apart from skipping the one-time module loading cost, zero-zip-nada. :-) It
>>is fair to say that a monolithic kernel is slightly less open to attack, 
>>but
>>a modular kernel is only vulnerable (in the general case) when the attacker
>>has root privileges (which means, you're stuffed anyway).
>>
>>Building your own kernel is yet more premature optimisation, although it 
>>can
>>be necessary for all kinds of other reasons (new drivers, etc).
>>
>> 
>>
>Building Kernel is a requirement for Securing Servers.

So's chemiweld.  You don't have to brew your own though.