Experts say software vendors will soon offer products for different Linux 'flavors' (NewsForge)

Experts say software vendors will soon offer products for different Linux 'flavors' (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 8, 2004 2:18 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Experts say software vendors will soon offer products for different Linux 'flavors' (NewsForge) by dang
Parent article: Experts say software vendors will soon offer products for different Linux 'flavors' (NewsForge)

Much more so with 2.4 kernels than 2.6 kernels, though, because a lot of the patches are backports of 2.5 features to 2.4. Red Hat needed the new features to support some customers, but they didn't want to ship a development-series kernel, so they backported stuff. But the current Red Hat kernel is evidentally almost all from kernel.org, particularly if you include non-vanilla patches available from kernel.org (e.g., -mm). For that matter, the "true Red Hat stuff" mentioned in the lwn article on the subject is conveniently linked from kernel.org. One reason not to do a 2.7 series is that it would surely encourage distros to backport the changes and ship more heavily patched kernels again.

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