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    SubjectRe: Stop the Linux kernel madness
    On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote:

    > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Kyle McMartin wrote:
    >
    > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:09:17PM -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote:
    > > > Files linux-2.6.5/arch/i386/boot98/setup.S and
    > > > linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386/boot98/setup.S differ
    > > >
    > > Ok. They edit setup.S. This doesn't change APIs.
    > >
    > > > Files linux-2.6.5/arch/i386/defconfig and
    > > > linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386/defconfig differ
    > > >
    > > SuSE doesn't ship the default kernel .config. *SHOCK!* Neither does
    > > anyone else.
    > >
    > Well, Slackware Linux usually ships with an unmodified kernel.org kernel
    > (there are rare cases of patches that fix security issues though). I find
    > this a very nice property of Slackware since there are never any problems
    > when replacing the default kernel with a custom build kernel.org one...
    > There are other minor distributions that also ship with kernel.org
    > kernels - I don't have a list at hand, but I've run into several over the
    > years.
    >
    Whoops, should have read the parent email better. Slackware does not use
    the default kernel .config, it does however use the kernel.org source
    without additional patches.. I agree, nobody ships a defconfig kernel.


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    Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>

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