Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Availability of kdb | Date | Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:46:30 +0200 |
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Christer Weinigel wrote: > > [lamont@icopyright.com] wrote: > > >I'm really kind of surprised that companies like SuSE, VA and RedHat > >haven't started talking about forking the kernel already. Those companies > >are serving the administrators and managers whose needs you are openly > >admitting that you are not concerned with. For those companies the > >present state of affairs isn't sustainable. > > If you haven't noticed, they already do. The kernel shipped from > RedHat has quite a few patches applied that arent in Linus' tree. > There's nothing stopping them from doing the same thing with > the KGDB or IKD patch.
Yes, for example I doubt Mandrake would need much encouragement to start doing that - it's just one more way to get a little bit out in front of the pack. This will be fine for stable kernels in shipping distributions, IOW, for newbies, the unwashed masses, and the just plain lazy.
For the unstable tree I can pick up the SGI patch from time to time. When I go so far out on the bleeding edge that SGI hasn't updated the patch yet I'll just bare my hairy chest and wrestle those bugs into submission with my bare hands like a man
To tell the truth it's what I've been doing anyway, except for the part about the hairy chest. :-)
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